• Thumbnail for Greenstone belt
    Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean...
    12 KB (1,366 words) - 04:09, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Isua Greenstone Belt
    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...
    36 KB (4,094 words) - 10:48, 29 November 2023
  • Saddleback greenstone belt (Australia) Southern Cross greenstone belt (Australia) Yandal greenstone belt (Australia) Yalgoo-Singleton greenstone belt (Australia)...
    3 KB (283 words) - 02:18, 2 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Yilgarn Craton
    deposits. The Southern Cross Province lies in the central area of the Yilgarn craton. The Marda–Diemals greenstone belt in the Southern Cross Terrane can...
    24 KB (3,249 words) - 09:33, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Temagami Greenstone Belt
    The Temagami Greenstone Belt (TGB) is a small 2.7 billion year old greenstone belt in the Temagami region of Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It represents...
    58 KB (7,670 words) - 21:28, 24 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dharwar Craton
    contains migmatitic TTG gneisses, and the eastern block contains 2.7 Ga greenstone belts and calc-alkaline plutons. The formation of the basement rock of the...
    39 KB (3,536 words) - 19:29, 21 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Algoman orogeny
    and sedimentary rocks called greenstone belts.: 31  Most Archean volcanic rocks are concentrated within greenstone belts;: 45  the green color comes from...
    30 KB (3,593 words) - 09:46, 23 September 2023
  • Tanzania and contain most of the greenstone belts found in the Tanzanian Craton. Granite rocks surrounding these greenstone belts are also known to host gold...
    13 KB (1,834 words) - 04:46, 26 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Volcanism of Canada
    Swayze greenstone belt further south is interpreted to be a southwestern extension of the Abitibi greenstone belt. The Archean Red Lake greenstone belt in...
    136 KB (13,419 words) - 15:58, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cape Fold Belt
    The Cape Fold Belt is a fold and thrust belt of late Paleozoic age, which affected the sequence of sedimentary rock layers of the Cape Supergroup in the...
    42 KB (4,512 words) - 05:25, 25 November 2023
  • Renosterkoppies Greenstone Belt forms on the northern edge of the Kaapvaal Craton. c. 2,736 Ma – Formation of the Temagami Greenstone Belt in Temagami, Ontario...
    64 KB (7,668 words) - 13:29, 20 January 2024
  • is the southernmost of the gold-bearing bands in the Archaen greenstone (schist) belts of Zimbabwe. It is estimated that between 1866 and 1963 over 200...
    4 KB (427 words) - 16:05, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geology of South Africa
    Africa is highly varied including cratons, greenstone belts, large impact craters as well as orogenic belts. The geology of the country is the base for...
    16 KB (1,777 words) - 16:59, 28 March 2024
  • staking in 1968 under the Mining Act. Barton is situated in the Temagami Greenstone Belt. This is a 2.7 billion year old sequence of metamorphosed igneous and...
    9 KB (1,007 words) - 17:49, 19 November 2022
  • karstic basins draining into Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet. These are the two best defined of the belt of large shallow closed depressions which account...
    4 KB (327 words) - 09:31, 18 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Greenschist
    mid-ocean ridges typically exhibit sub-greenschist alteration. The greenstone belts of the various archean cratons are commonly altered to the greenschist...
    11 KB (1,151 words) - 01:19, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for North China Craton
    system. Neoarchean greenstone belt gold deposits are located in Sandaogou (northeastern side of The North China Craton). The greenstone belt type gold deposits...
    109 KB (8,690 words) - 17:58, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chicxulub crater
    and that a comet impactor could be effectively ruled out. Barberton Greenstone Belt List of impact craters on Earth List of possible impact structures...
    82 KB (8,186 words) - 15:35, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Witwatersrand
    known as komatiite, present in the greenstone belts. Apart from the obvious hollowing out of the rocks below southern Johannesburg, causing unpredictable...
    38 KB (3,671 words) - 06:49, 27 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Supervolcano
    supervolcanoes, such as the Blake River Megacaldera Complex in the Abitibi greenstone belt of Ontario and Quebec, Canada. Though there is no well-defined minimum...
    28 KB (2,445 words) - 11:14, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karoo Supergroup
    Plateau collided and then fused with Southern Africa, forming a vast range of mountains to the south of the Cape Fold Belt. This new mountain range was comparable...
    34 KB (3,509 words) - 10:28, 15 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Slave Craton
    used to represent the general stratigraphy of the greenstone belts in the Slave Craton, including belts in the Eastern Slave, in order to interpret the...
    19 KB (2,496 words) - 13:53, 1 April 2024
  • Riganti, A. (2004). "4350–3130 Ma detrital zircons in the Southern Cross Granite–Greenstone Terrane, Western Australia: implications for the early evolution...
    32 KB (3,511 words) - 21:05, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eastern Block of the North China Craton
    "Geochemical characteristics of the Neoarchean (2800–2700 Ma) Taishan greenstone belt, North China Craton: Evidence for plume–craton interaction". Chemical...
    59 KB (6,660 words) - 21:51, 7 November 2023
  • at Lega Dembi, as well as countless illegal gold mines in the Adola greenstone belt. Land clashes in June 2006 between the rival Guji and Borena Oromo...
    9 KB (695 words) - 18:41, 27 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Geology of Cape Town
    folded during the Cape Orogeny to form the Cape Fold Belt, which extends along the western and southern coasts. The present landscape is due to prolonged...
    27 KB (3,020 words) - 09:37, 8 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sedimentary rock
    weight of the mountain belt can cause isostatic subsidence in the area of the overriding plate on the other side to the mountain belt. The basin type resulting...
    63 KB (7,683 words) - 02:31, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lapland (Finland)
    Granites, gneiss, metasediments and metavolcanics are common rocks while greenstone belts are recurring features. More rare rock associations include mafic and...
    35 KB (2,698 words) - 19:54, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ryukyu Arc
    Formation, with strata of interbedded phyllite, slate, sandstone, limestone, greenstone, and chert, underlies the Motobu Formation and contains Permian corals...
    27 KB (3,048 words) - 03:18, 16 December 2023
  • open-pit mines that access Birimian rocks within the southern portion of the Ashanti Greenstone Belt. Golden Star Resources developed the mining operation...
    10 KB (1,139 words) - 16:35, 10 May 2022