Reconstruction of a 3700 Ma transgressive marine environment from Isua (Greenland): Sedimentlogy, stratigraphy and geochemical signatures

• Published in: Lithos
• Main Authors: Nutman, Allen P., Friend, Clark R L, Bennett, Victoria, Van Kranendonk, M J, Chivas, A R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Greenland; Solvang
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/206418; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105164; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/206418/3/01_Nutman_Reconstruction_of_a_3700_Ma_2019.pdf.jpg

The rare preservation of a stratigraphy in the northwest of the Eoarchean Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland) demonstrates the world's earliest-recognised marine transgression. Stratigraphically lowest is the ~3710 Ma Solvang Volcanic Formation of picrites, basalts and basaltic-andesites with ar...