• Supracrustal rocks (supra (Latin for "above")) are rocks that were deposited on the existing basement rocks of the crust, hence the name. They may be further...
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    eastern block. The Chitradurga greenstone belt is an elongated linear supracrustal belt which is 400 km long from North to South. Cratonisation is an important...
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    volcanic and sedimentary rocks, and is the largest exposure of Eoarchaean supracrustal rocks on Earth. Due to its age and low metamorphic grade relative to...
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    One of the oldest rock types of the state of Karnataka is named after Sargur. In geological terms it is called "Sargur supracrustals" or "Sargur schist"...
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    (2003). Cates, N. L. & Mojzsis, S. J. Pre-3,750 Ma supracrustal rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, northern Québec. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett....
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  • Hadean eon - based on the age of an igneous band that cuts the rock. The supracrustal sequence contains layers rich in iron and silica, which are variously...
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    unit of the supracrustal sequence, a metamorphosed conglomerate considered to have an age ~3.0 Ga. Given the detrital nature of the rock unit, the zircons...
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    in Zimbabwe Craton The Isua Greenstone Belt, also known as the Isua supracrustal belt, is found at the Isukasia terrane in Southern West Greenland and...
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    and Nd isotope data from the newly identified Eoarchean Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, Superior Craton, Canada". Geological Society of America Bulletin...
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    country rock. Most of the dykes are quartz-dolerites in terms of chemistry, with less common olivine gabbro, norite and bronzite picrite. Supracrustal rocks...
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  • core of the Rattlesnake Hills forms an Archean supracrustal belt of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rock that has been intruded by more than 40 Cenozoic...
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    N.L.; Mojzsis, S.J. (March 2007). "Pre-3750 Ma supracrustal rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, northern Québec". Earth and Planetary Science...
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    flooding event in the Bambuí Basin. The sedimentary provenance is from supracrustal feldsic elements on a continental margin environment with an acidic magmatic...
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    flooding event in the Bambuí Basin. The sedimentary provenance is from supracrustal felsic elements in a continental margin environment with acid magmatic...
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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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    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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  • found in Bellary district, Mysore and the Aravallis of Rajputana. The supracrustal rocks of the Dharwar Group of the southern Indian Peninsula, as depicted...
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  • Proterozoic rocks that are highly deformed plutonic and metamorphosed supracrustal (metasedimentary and metavolcanic) rocks that reached greenschist to...
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    designated as Attappadi Supracrustals. Remnants and enclaves of Attappadi supracrustals occur within the gneisses. BIF is another important rock type occurring...
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    S2CID 140677224. Wanga Q.; Campbella I. H. (1998). "Geochronology of supracrustal rocks from the Golden Grove area, Murchison Province, Yilgarn Craton...
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    migmatite gneiss, with some granitoids and banded iron formations in remnant supracrustal belts. Archean rocks were affected by two major orogeny mountain building...
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    region, in Guinea, Liberia and Ivory Coast. Within the Kenema-Man domain, supracrustal rocks form syncline greenstone belts, surrounded by granite-gneiss and...
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  • Mexico's Subduction Zone More Slippery". Eos. "Geology, Age and Origin of Supracrustal Rocks at Akilia, West Greenland". Bressan, David. "Rise Of Oxygen On...
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    in greenstone belts. In Archean cratons, greenstone belts represent supracrustal rocks formed at the Earth's surface and the belts are dominated by volcano-sedimentary...
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    Cates N, Mojzsis S (March 2007). "Pre-3750 Ma supracrustal rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, northern Québec". Earth and Planetary Science...
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  • which happened by the early Cambrian. Evidence indicating that pulse of supracrustal deformation along the edge of west Gondwana caused a series of environmental...
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    long. It contains the southernmost remnants of Archean intrusive and supracrustal rocks in Eastern Ontario, as well as some of the most ancient felsic...
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  • Helmstaedt, H. (1988). "Structural patterns and tectonic evolution of supracrustal domains in the Archean Slave Province, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth...
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    Archean to Paleoproterozoic granitic basement gneiss, amphibolite supracrustal gneissic rock and Paleoproterozoic magmatic rocks in the Canadian Shield, extending...
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  • tonalite dikes and plugs intruded into shear zones in the South Pass supracrustal rocks along with light-colored, metamorphosed leucodacite porphyry and...
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