Contrasting Textural and Chemical Signatures of Chromitites in the Mesoarchaean Ulamertoq Peridotite Body, Southern West Greenland

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Juan Miguel Guotana, Tomoaki Morishita, Ryoko Yamaguchi, Ikuya Nishio, Akihiro Tamura, Kenichiro Tani, Yumiko Harigane, Kristoffer Szilas, D. Graham Pearson
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: chromites; compositional zonation; Greenland; Ulamertoq
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8090328

Peridotites occur as lensoid bodies within the Mesoarchaean orthogneiss in the Akia terrane of Southern West Greenland. The Ulamertoq peridotite body is the largest of these peridotites hosted within the regional orthogneiss. It consists mainly of olivine, orthopyroxene, and amphibole-rich ultramafi...