Volcanic framework and geochemical evolution of the Archean Hope Bay Greenstone Belt, Nunavut, Canada

• Main Author: Shannon, Andrew J.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2008
• Subjects: Gold; Greentone belt; Geochemistry; Geochronology; Ti basalts; Stratigraphy; Canada; Hope Bay; Nunavut
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/741

Part of the Slave Structural Province, the Hope Bay Greenstone Belt is a 82 km long north-striking sequence of supracrustal rocks dominated by mafic volcanic rocks with lesser felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Mapping of two transects in the southern section and two transects in the northern se...