List of greenstone belts
Appearance
This is a list of greenstone belts
Africa
[edit]Burkina Faso
[edit]Democratic Republic of the Congo
[edit]Angola
[edit]South Africa
[edit]Tanzania
[edit]Zimbabwe
[edit]- Belingwe Greenstone Belt
- Gweru-Shurugwi Greenstone Belt
- Harare greenstone belt
- Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt
- Wedza Greenstone belt
- Bulawayo-Bubi Greenstone belt
- Makaha Greenstone Belt
- Beatrice Greenstone Belt
- Dindi Greenstone Belt
- Mt Darwin Greenstone Belt
Eurasia
[edit]Russia
[edit]Finland
[edit]- Central Lapland Greenstone Belt (Lapland)
- Tipasjärvi-Kuhmo-Suomussalmi greenstone belt
Norway
[edit]Oceania
[edit]- Harris greenstone belt (Australia)
- Jack Hills greenstone belt (Australia)
- Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt (Australia)
- Saddleback greenstone belt (Australia)
- Southern Cross greenstone belt (Australia)
- Yandal greenstone belt (Australia)
- Yalgoo-Singleton greenstone belt (Australia)
North America
[edit]Canada
[edit]- Abitibi greenstone belt (Quebec/Ontario)
- Bird River greenstone belt (Manitoba)
- Ecstall Greenstone Belt (British Columbia)
- Ennadai greenstone belt (Saskatchewan)
- Flin Flon greenstone belt (Manitoba/Saskatchewan)
- Hope Bay greenstone belt (Nunavut)
- Hunt River greenstone belt (Newfoundland and Labrador)
- Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (Quebec)
- Red Lake greenstone belt (Ontario)
- Rice Lake greenstone belt (Manitoba)
- Swayze greenstone belt (Ontario)
- Temagami Greenstone Belt (Ontario)
- Yellowknife greenstone belt (Northwest Territories)
Greenland
[edit]- Isua greenstone belt (Southwestern Greenland)
United States
[edit]- Elmers Rock greenstone belt (Wyoming)
- Franciscan Assemblage (California)
- Rattlesnake Hills greenstone belt (Wyoming)
- Seminoe Mountains greenstone belt (Wyoming)
- South Pass greenstone belt (Wyoming)
South America
[edit]Brazil
[edit]Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Huot, Daniel; Sattran, Vladimir (1987). "Gold in Birrimian Greenstone Belts of Burkina Faso,West Africa". Economic Geology. 82 (8): 2033–2044. Bibcode:1987EcGeo..82.2033H. doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.82.8.2033.
- ^ R. Naipal and S. B. Kroonenberg, "Provenance signals in metaturbidites of the Paleoproterozoic greenstone belt of the GuianaShield in Suriname". Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, Available on CJO 2016 doi:10.1017/njg.2016.9