Setting of the 2560 MA Qorqut Granite Complex in the Archean Crustal Evolution of Southern West Greenland

• Main Authors: Nutman, Allen P, Hiess, Joe, Friend, Clark R L
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2010
• Subjects: Setting; 2560; Qorqut; Granite; Complex; Archean; Crustal; Evolution; Southern; West; Greenland; GeoQUEST; Life Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Ivisaartoq; Nuuk
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/scipapers/3445

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...