Metasomatic Modification of the Mesoarchaean Ulamertoq Ultramafic Body, Southern West Greenland

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: Nishio, Ikuya, Morishita, Tomoaki, Itano, Keita, Guotana, Juan Miguel, Tamura, Akihiro, Szilas, Kristoffer, Harigane, Yumiko, Tani, Kenichiro, Pearson, D Graham
• Other Authors: Carlsberg Foundation, Kanazawa University SAKIGAKE 2018, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2022
• Subjects: Greenland; Ulamertoq
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac004; https://academic.oup.com/petrology/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/petrology/egac004/42419040/egac004.pdf; https://academic.oup.com/petrology/article-pdf/63/3/egac004/43548005/egac004.pdf

Abstract Numerous ultramafic rocks occur as lens-shaped bodies in the Archaean continental crust exposed in southern West Greenland. As some of the oldest exposed ultramafic bodies, determining their origin, as mantle segments or magmatic cumulates, is an important yet controversial issue. The origi...