Building Mesoarchaean crust upon Eoarchaean roots : the Akia Terrane, West Greenland

• Published in: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
• Main Authors: Gardiner, N. J., Kirkland, C. L., Hollis, J., Szilas, K., Steenfelt, A., Yakymchuk, C., Heide-Jørgensen, H.
• Other Authors: University of St Andrews.School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Archean; Hf isotope evolution; North Atlantic Craton; Partial melting anatexis; TTG; QE Geology; GE Environmental Sciences; Geophysics; Geochemistry and Petrology; DAS; QE; GE; Greenland; Maniitsoq; Finnefjeld; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10023/18486; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1554-x

The Maniitsoq project is supported by the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Labour, Government of Greenland. NJG thanks Curtin University and Australian Research Council grant FL160100168 for financial support. Constraining the source, genesis, and evolution of Archaean felsic crust is key to unders...