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... 16 KB (2,022 words) - 18:29, 19 April 2024 |
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... 195 bytes (59 words) - 00:31, 29 March 2024 |
Kaapvaal Craton (section Barberton greenstone belt) 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... 10 KB (1,290 words) - 17:23, 25 April 2024 |
Greenstone Belt (Ontario) Yellowknife greenstone belt (Northwest Territories) Isua greenstone belt (Southwestern Greenland) Elmers Rock greenstone belt (Wyoming)... 3 KB (283 words) - 02:18, 2 June 2023 |
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... 11 KB (876 words) - 15:36, 15 March 2024 |
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... 27 KB (2,146 words) - 15:29, 8 April 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,261 words) - 09:15, 7 March 2024 |
Archean: a period defined by the first crustal formations (the Isua greenstone belt) until the deposition of banded iron formations due to increasing... 33 KB (3,531 words) - 01:04, 30 April 2024 |
margins were heavily deformed during the Caledonian orogeny. The Isua Greenstone Belt of western Greenland preserves oceanic crust containing sheeted dike... 37 KB (4,455 words) - 22:21, 7 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (295 words) - 18:42, 22 July 2023 |
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... 7 KB (934 words) - 14:46, 21 December 2023 |
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... 30 KB (3,668 words) - 14:50, 21 April 2024 |
the latest research, either part of the Isua Greenstone Belt, Narryer Gneiss Terrane, Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Napier Complex, or the Acasta Gneiss... 18 KB (2,148 words) - 15:12, 26 March 2024 |
controlled deposition of banded iron formation in the ca. 3770Ma Isua Supracrustal Belt (West Greenland)". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 363: 192–203... 64 KB (7,668 words) - 13:29, 20 January 2024 |
acidic, due to dissolved carbon dioxide, than during the Proterozoic. Greenstone belts are typical Archean formations, consisting of alternating units of... 40 KB (4,114 words) - 08:46, 8 April 2024 |
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... 195 KB (20,089 words) - 09:42, 2 May 2024 |