The Bell Lake group and Anton Complex: a basement – cover sequence beneath the Archean Yellowknife greenstone belt revealed and implicated in greenstone belt formation

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Isachsen, C. E., Bowring, S. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1997
• Subjects: Bell Lake; Yellowknife
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e17-014; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e17-014

U–Pb zircon and monazite geochronology indicates the presence of a >2.93 Ga basement (Anton Complex) and >2.8 Ga cover sequence (Bell Lake group) beneath the 2.70 to >2.72 Ga Kam Group of the Yellowknife greenstone belt in the southern Slave Province. The Bell Lake group comprises remnants...