Detrital zircon sedimentary provenance ages for the Eoarchaean Isua supracrustal belt southern West Greenland: Juxtaposition of an imbricated ca. 3700Ma juvenile arc against an older complex with 3920-3760 Ma components

• Published in: Precambrian Research
• Main Authors: Nutman, Allen, Friend, Clark, Paxton, Shane
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Keywords: age determination; amphibolite facies; Archean; belt; gabbro; geochronology; metabasalt; provenance; sedimentary rock; suture zone; terrane; tonalite; zircon; Arctic; Greenland Detrital zircon dating; Eoarchaean; Greenland; Isua supracrustal belt; Terrane assembly; Nuuk
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49847; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2009.03.019; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/49847/5/Nutman_Paxton_Detrital_zircon_2009.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/49847/7/01_Nutman_Detrital_zircon_sedimentary_2009.pdf.jpg

The amphibolite facies Eoarchaean Isua supracrustal belt (northern part of the Nuuk region, southern West Greenland) is dominated by strongly deformed metabasalts, with chert, banded iron formation, felsic volcanic and volcano-sedimentary rocks and minor