Setting of the ~2560 Ma Qôrqut Granite Complex in the Archean crustal evolution of Southern West Greenland

• Published in: American Journal of Science
• Main Authors: Nutman, Allan P., Friend, Clark R.L., Hiess, Joe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Greenland; Ivisaartoq; Nuuk
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14831/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14831/1/Nutman-et-al-revised-complete.pdf; http://www.ajsonline.org/

The Archean gneiss complex of West Greenland contains packages of unrelated rocks created during relatively short periods of time in arc-like magmatic environments, and having similarities to rocks formed at Phanerozoic convergent plate boundaries. The terranes of new Archean crust were amalgamated...