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The Abitibi greenstone belt in Ontario and Quebec is one of the largest Archean greenstone belts in the world. In Antarctica, the Proterozoic-aged Fisher Massif closely resembles the composition and structure of a greenstone belt.
The Abitibi greenstone belt is a 2,800-to-2,600-million-year-old greenstone belt that spans across the Ontario–Quebec border in Canada. [1] It is mostly made of volcanic rocks , but also includes ultramafic rocks , mafic intrusions , granitoid rocks , and early and middle Precambrian sediments.
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The 2,677 million year old Abitibi greenstone belt in Ontario and Quebec is one of the largest Archean greenstone belts on Earth and one of the youngest parts of the Superior craton which sequentially forms part of the Canadian Shield. [6] Ontario's metallic mineral wealth such as gold, copper and zinc comes from the Abitibi/Wawa subprovince. [5]
Around the world, greenstone belts are a hallmark of ancient Precambrian rocks. The Ennadai-Rankin greenstone belt is the second largest in Canada and displays felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, as well as mafic rocks reaching greenschist grade on the sequence of metamorphic facies.
The Abitibi greenstone belt in Ontario and Quebec, Canada is one of the world's largest greenstone belts. Volcanic belts are similar to a mountain range, but the mountains within the mountain range are volcanoes, not mountains that are formed by faulting and folding by the collision of tectonic plates. [2]
Eoarchean geology is the study of the oldest preserved crustal fragments of Earth during the Eoarchean era from 4.031 to 3.6 billion years ago. Major well-preserved rock units dated to this era are known from three 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 coast of Hudson Bay ...