Two garnet growth events in polymetamorphic rocks in southwest Spitsbergen, Norway: insight in the history of Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic metamorphism in the High Arctic

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Majka, Jarosław, Kośmińska, Karolina, Mazur, Stanisław, Czerny, Jerzy, Piepjohn, Karsten, Dwornik, Maciej, Manecki, Maciej
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Ellesmere Island; Svalbard; Wedel Jarlsberg Land; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2015-0142; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2015-0142; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2015-0142

Geochronological studies in northern Wedel Jarlsberg Land, southwestern Svalbard (Norway), showed that the Tonian (c. 950 Ma) igneous rocks were subjected to metamorphism during the Torellian (c. 640 Ma) and early Caledonian (470–460 Ma) events. Predominant augen gneisses, derived from a Tonian prot...