Searching for giant, ancient impact structures on earth: the Mesoarchaean Maniitsoq structure, West Greenland

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Garde, Adam A., McDonald, Iain, Dyck, Brendan, Keulen, Nynke
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: QB Astronomy; QE Geology; Greenland; Maniitsoq; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44575/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.026

A 100km scale,circular region in the Archaean North Atlantic Craton centred at 651150N, 511500W near Maniitsoq town in West Greenland comprises a set of highly unusual geological features that were created during a single event involving intense crushing and heating and are incompatible with crustal...