An Orphaned Baltic Terrane in the Greenland Caledonides: A Sm-Nd and Detrital Zircon Study of a High-Pressure/Ultrahigh-Pressure Complex in Liverpool Land

• Main Authors: Brueckner, Hannes K., Medaris, Jr., L. G., Belousova, E. A., Johnston, S. M., Griffin, W. L., Hartz, E. H., Hemming, Sidney R., Ghent, E., Bubbico, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Chicago Press 2016
• Subjects: Geochemistry; Metamorphic rocks; Eclogite; Granulite; Greenland; Liverpool Land
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7916/D84T6JK2

Liverpool Land, at the southern tip of the Greenland Caledonides, exposes a composite metamorphic terrane: the midcrustal granulite-facies Jaettedal Complex tectonically juxtaposed against the eclogite-facies, peridotite-bearing Tvaerdal Complex. The Jaettedal Complex is a Laurentian terrane, wherea...