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Making and shaping South Greenland: unravelling crustal growth in the Ketilidian Orogen, a Paleoproterozoic continental arc

11 October 2024
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Speaker

Tod Waight

 

Institute

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Time & Place

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:00:00 NZDT in ER 263

 

Abstract

The Ketilidian Orogen in South Greenland represents a continental arc and part of the Great Proterozoic Accretionary Orogeny. It is subdivided into the Central Domain – dominated by I-type granites of the Julianehåb Igneous Complex (1.85-1.80 Ga) - and the Southern Domain – forearc sediments metamorphosed to amphibolite and granulite facies at 1.79-1.76 Ga and subsequently intruded by rapakivi granites of the Ilua Suite (1.75-1.73 Ga). This presentation focuses on how U-Pb geochronology and Hf and O isotope compositions of zircons from the main lithologies can identify both growth of new crust, and reworking of existing crust.

 

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