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    The Isua Greenstone Belt is an Archean greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland, aged between 3.7 and 3.8 billion years. The belt contains variably metamorphosed...
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    Bay greenstone belt (in the western portion of Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada) Hunt River greenstone belt (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) Isua greenstone...
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    Earth, second only to the Isua Greenstone Belt of Western Greenland. The Makhonjwa Mountains make up 40% of the Baberton belt. It is named after the town...
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    localities, the Isua Greenstone Belt in Southwest Greenland, the Acasta Gneiss in the Slave Craton in Canada, and the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in the eastern...
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  • Isua may refer to: Isua Greenstone Belt, a Greenlandic greenstone belt Isua Iron Mine, a proposed open-pit iron mine Isua Akoko, a small town in Ondo...
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    the oldest traces of life on earth. Only the rocks found in the Isua Greenstone Belt of Western Greenland are older. The Archaean Johannesburg Dome is...
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  • Greenstone Belt (Ontario) Yellowknife greenstone belt (Northwest Territories) Isua greenstone belt (Southwestern Greenland) Elmers Rock greenstone belt (Wyoming)...
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    Late Heavy Bombardment. The largest Eoarchean rock formation is the Isua Greenstone Belt on the south-west coast of Greenland, which dates from 3.8 billion...
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    made up of some of the oldest rocks on the face of the earth. The Isua greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland contains the oldest known rocks on Earth...
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  • Terrane of Western Australia. The earliest supracrustals (such as the Isua greenstone belt) date from the latter half of this period, about 3.8 Ga, around the...
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  • Archean: a period defined by the first crustal formations (the Isua greenstone belt) until the deposition of banded iron formations due to increasing...
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    margins were heavily deformed during the Caledonian orogeny. The Isua Greenstone Belt of western Greenland preserves oceanic crust containing sheeted dike...
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    from the Isua Greenstone Belt and provides evidence that water existed on Earth 3.8 billion years ago. In the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Quebec, Canada...
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  • belt. The Napier Mountains in Antarctica are of similar age. The Isua greenstone belt contains the oldest, well-preserved, supracrustals, dated at 3.8–3...
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  • Greenland craton is made up of some of the oldest rocks on Earth. The Isua greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland contains the oldest known rocks on Earth...
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    from the Isua Greenstone Belt and provides evidence that water existed on Earth 3.8 billion years ago. In the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Quebec, Canada...
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  • of a planet, dependent on reflectivity of its surface and clouds. Isua Greenstone Belt List of cosmology paradoxes – List of statements that appear to contradict...
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    Upernavik Subdivisions of Norden Administrative divisions of Greenland Isua greenstone belt (geology) 68°00′N 52°00′W / 68.000°N 52.000°W / 68.000; -52.000...
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    western gneiss complex is approximately 3600 million years old. The Isua Greenstone Belt in the Isukasia area, southwest Greenland, is extraordinary in that...
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    from the Isua Greenstone Belt and provides evidence that water existed on Earth 3.8 billion years ago. In the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Quebec, Canada...
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    continental crust. Isuan Period (3810–3490 Ma) – named after the Isua Greenstone Belt. Mesoarchean Era/Erathem (3490–2780 Ma) Vaalbaran Period/System (3490–3020...
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    the latest research, either part of the Isua Greenstone Belt, Narryer Gneiss Terrane, Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Napier Complex, or the Acasta Gneiss...
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    continent. The oldest BIFs are associated with greenstone belts and include the BIFs of the Isua Greenstone Belt, the oldest known, which have an estimated...
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    Archean greenstone complexes due to the low density, intrusive nature of the rocks. TTGs are found in other Archean greenstone belts such as Isua and Barberton...
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    the oldest preserved volcanic sequences on the planet, the Isua and Barberton greenstone belts, confirms the presence of large bodies of water on the Earth's...
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    early terrestrial crust: Zircon U–Pb and REE constraints from the Isua Greenstone Belt, southern West Greenland". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 240...
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    is the 3.7 Ga metasedimentary rocks containing graphite from the Isua Supracrustal Belt in Greenland. The earliest direct known life on land may be stromatolites...
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  • controlled deposition of banded iron formation in the ca. 3770Ma Isua Supracrustal Belt (West Greenland)". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 363: 192–203...
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    acidic, due to dissolved carbon dioxide, than during the Proterozoic. Greenstone belts are typical Archean formations, consisting of alternating units of...
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    near the Isua supracrustal belt in southwestern Greenland, dating to 3.7 Gya, have shown biogenic carbon isotopes. In other parts of the Isua supracrustal...
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