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4.1 Canada. 4.2 Greenland. 4.3 United States. ... This is a list of greenstone belts. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2010 ...
Abitibi greenstone belt (Quebec/Ontario, Canada) Bird River greenstone belt (Manitoba, Canada) Elmers Rock greenstone belt (Wyoming, USA) Flin Flon greenstone belt (Manitoba/Saskatchewan, Canada) Hope Bay greenstone belt (in the western portion of Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada) Hunt River greenstone belt (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
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.
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]
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The Flin Flon greenstone belt, also referred to as the Flin Flon – Snow Lake greenstone belt, is a Precambrian greenstone belt located in the central area of Manitoba and east-central Saskatchewan, Canada (near Flin Flon). It lies in the central portion of the Trans-Hudson orogeny and was formed by arc volcanism during the Paleoproterozoic ...
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 a feature of the Superior craton, an ancient and stable part of the Earth's lithosphere that forms the core of the North American continent and Canadian Shield.
The Yellowknife greenstone belt, also called the Yellowknife Volcanic Belt, is an Archean greenstone belt in the southern Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada.It is mostly made of mafic volcanic rocks (basalt and andesite) and is bordered to the east by batholithic intrusions of the Western Granodiorite Complex and beyond to the north by the Duckfish Lake Granite. [1]