Evidence for spreading in the lower Kam Group of the Yellowknife greenstone belt: Implications for Archaean basin evolution in the Slave Province

• Main Authors: Padgham, W. A., Helmstaedt, H.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1986
• Subjects: GEOPHYSICS; Yellowknife; Rocas; Beaulieu River
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19860013638

The Yellowknife greenstone belt is the western margin of an Archean turbidite-filled basin bordered on the east by the Cameron River and Beaulieu River volcanic belts (Henderson, 1981; Lambert, 1982). This model implies that rifting was entirely ensialic and did not proceed beyond the graben stage....