By ANDREW Y. GLIKSON

Archaean terrains include a wealth of structural, stratigraphic, textural, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic gains permitting insights into the character of the early Earth. This booklet relies on experiences in the course of 1964-2007 of Archaean terrains in Australia and to a lesser quantity in South Africa and India, in addition to on visits to Archaean terrains in Canada, the united states and China, in addition to petrological and geochemical reports of igneous and sedimentary rock suites from more than a few terrains. The publication will comprise quite a number photographic and microscopic pictures, geological comic strip maps and diagrams illustrating the teachings derived from box and the laboratory. additionally different Archaean terrains are being reviewed.

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G. Zimbabwe, Chilimanzi, Umtali and Salisbury intrusions; (2) small to medium-size intrusions which pierce the older tonalitic gneisses; and (3) small bodies within the greenstone belts. On Phaup’s (1973) map the massive granites are commonly separated from greenstone belts by zones of gneiss which represent dynamically deformed margins and/or remnants of older gneisses. A characteristic feature of the older tonalitic gneiss is their wealth in enclaves, screens, bands and schlieren of supracrustal material.

2002). The REE and Y profiles and the Fe isotopic compositions of Nuvvuagittuq’s BIF confirm their origin as marine exhalites (O’Neill et al. 2007). 0 Ga precursor source terrains (Wooden and Mueller 1988; Frost and Frost 1993; Mueller and Frost 2006; Chamberlain et al. 2003). 67 Ga terrain of the Teton and Wind River Ranges (O’Neill and Lopez 1985; Mueller et al. 2002; Frost et al. 2006). Other late Archaean terrains occur in the North Snowy Block, southwestern Montana and in south-central Wyoming (Chamberlain et al.

Post-magmatic isostatic adjustments between low-density felsic plutonic complexes and high-density greenstone synclinoria resulted in intermittent subsidence of the latter, as represented in the Pilbara Craton by the preferential occurrence of lower Proterozoic volcanic outliers of the Fortescue Group above the greenstone synclinoria (Hallberg and Glikson 1980). Petrological and geochemical features of the TTG and post-kinematic granites are discussed in Sect. 2. 2 Vertical Crustal Zonation The relations between supracrustal low-metamorphic grade greenstone belts, gneiss terrains (Chap.

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