Pericontinental crustal growth of the southwestern abitibi subprovince, Canada - U-Pb, Hf, and Nd isotope evidence

• Published in: Economic Geology
• Main Authors: Ketchum, John W F, Ayer, John A., Van Breemen, Otto, Pearson, Norman J., Becker, Jens K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Canada; Northwest Territories; Rice Lake; Round Lake; Yellowknife
• Online Access: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/e3396716-a41b-460f-9e8b-f14aaef24c07; https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.103.6.1151; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=60349123149&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, P.O. Box 1500, Yellowknife, NT, Canada X1A 2R3 The Abitibi subprovince is widely regarded as a classic example of Neoarchean continental crust formed in an ensimatic setting. However, sialic crust as old as 2.93 Ga occurs in the adjacent Wawa subprovince, and...