Red Lake greenstone belt

The Red Lake greenstone belt is an Archean greenstone belt at the town of Red Lake in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It consists of basaltic and komatiitic volcanics ranging in age from 2,925 to 2,940 million years old and younger rhyolite-andesite volcanics ranging in age from 2,730 to 2,750 million years old.[1]

See also

References

Fafu Zeng and Andrew J. Calvert, A Combined Seismic Tomographic and Reflection Imaging Across the Red Lake Greenstone Belt Using LITHOPROBE Line 2B, abstract Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine

Greenstone belts
Abitibi Barberton Bird River Central Lapland Ecstall Flin Flon Hope Bay Hunt River Isua Nuvvuagittuq Rattlesnake Hills Red Lake Seminoe Mountains South Pass Swayze Temagami Yellowknife

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