Mineralogic and Petrologic Studies of Archaean Metamorphic Rocks from West Greenland, Lunar Samples, and the Meteorite Kapoeta

• Main Author: Dymek, Robert F.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: California Institute of Technology 1977
• Subjects: Archaean gneiss; West Greenland; biotite; Geology; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Collerson; Greenland; Godthåb
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7907/wht4-n543; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12042020-191103512

In Part I of this thesis, petrographic and electron microprobe data are reported for samples from a series of high-grade Archaean gneisses, collected on Langø, an island in the northwest corner of the Godthåb District of West Greenland. Rocks with a wide variety of bulk compositions occur that all p...