Early Proterozoic regolith at Pasvik, NE Norway: palaeoenvironmental implications for the Baltic Shield

• Published in: Terra Nova
• Main Authors: Sturt, Brian A., Melezhik, Victor A., Ramsay, Donald M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1994
• Subjects: Norway; Pasvik; Pechenga
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.1994.tb00528.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-3121.1994.tb00528.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3121.1994.tb00528.x

ABSTRACT Regolith occurs at a number of localities along the northern margin of the early Proterozoic Pechenga Greenstone Belt marking a profound stratigraphic unconformity at the base of the 10 km thick Petsamo Supergroup. The age of regolith formation can be bracketed between 2.453 ± 42 Ga (Sm‐Nd)...