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Granites and granites in the East Greenland Caledonides

Date

Authors

Kalsbeek, Feiko

Higgins, A K

Jepsen, H

Frei, Robert

Nutman, Allen

Publisher

Geological Society of America

Abstract

Caledonian (435-425 Ma) and "Grenvillian" (950-900 Ma) S-type leucogranites and augen gneisses are prominent in the thrust units that form the southern half of the East Greenland Caledonian orogen, south of 76°N. Such rocks do not occur further north (76

Keywords

Keywords: bedrock; Caledonian orogeny; diorite; emplacement; granitoid; Grenvillian orogeny; I-type rock; igneous geochemistry; leucogranite; lithology; oceanic lithosphere; orthogneiss; petrology; S-type rock; subduction; Arctic; East Greenland; Greenland Caledonian orogen; East Greenland; Geochemistry; I-type granites; Isotopes, ages; S-type granites

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/82556

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Geological Society of America. Memoirs

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1130/2008.1202(09)

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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