Maniitsoq Norite Belt
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Maniitsoq Norite Belt
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The Maniitsoq Norite Belt is a ~75 km x 15 km J-shaped belt of igneous norite intrusions, located in the Akia Terrane of the North Atlantic Craton, Greenland, near the town of Maniitsoq. The belt is found as enclaves ranging from meter-scale pods to 8 km2 large intrusive bodies within the ~3050 to 2990 Ma TTG and dioritic gneisses of the Akia terrane. and formed contemporaneously with the host gneisses between ~3013 and 3001 Ma The norites underwent high grade granulite facies metamorphism at te
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniitsoq_Norite_Belt
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2024-01-04T13:14:17Z
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