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Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
meteoritics and planetary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.09
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 1086-9379
DOI - 10.1111/maps.12209
Subject(s) - hydrothermal circulation , archean , geology , zircon , metamorphic facies , geochemistry , facies , geomorphology , paleontology , structural basin
Brecciated and hydrothermally altered orthogneiss‐amphibolite complex in the Maniitsoq structure, West Greenland. Inset: variably hydrothermally altered zircon with reset U‐Pb systematics, yielding a hydrothermal age of 3000.9 ± 1.9 Ma. The hydrothermal alteration of regional extent took place at upper amphibolite facies, and is interpreted as due to infl ux of (sea?) water and development of a crustal‐scale hydrothermal convection cell in a now deeply exhumed Archaean impact structure. A. Scherstén and A. A. Garde discuss the details in their paper on pp. 1472–1498. (Images courtesy of Adam Garde and Leif Johansson.)