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greenstone belt Greenstone belts are zones of variably metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic volcanic sequences with associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies. The name comes from the green ...

Africa

Burkina Faso

* Hounde greenstone belt * Boromo greenstone belt

Democratic Republic of the Congo

* Kilo-Moto

Angola

* Lufico - Cabinda * Cassinga

South Africa

* Barberton greenstone belt * Pietersberg greenstone belt

Tanzania

* Kilimafedha greenstone belt *

Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

* Nzega Greenstone Belt

Zimbabwe

* Belingwe Greenstone Belt * Gweru-Shurugwi Greenstone Belt * Harare greenstone belt * Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt *

Wedza Greenstone belt Wedza (or Hwedza) is a district in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. It is located about south of Marondera, and south of Harare. The area was sparsely inhabited by the Mbire people of the Soko Clan as early inhabitants who mined iron i ...

* Bulawayo-Bubi Greenstone belt * Makaha Greenstone Belt * Beatrice Greenstone Belt * Dindi Greenstone Belt * Mt Darwin Greenstone Belt

Eurasia

Russia

* Kostomuksha greenstone belt

Finland

* Central Lapland Greenstone Belt (Lapland) * Tipasjärvi-Kuhmo-Suomussalmi greenstone belt

Norway

* Mauken greenstone belt

Oceania

* 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

Canada

* Abitibi greenstone belt (Quebec/Ontario) *

Bird River greenstone belt The Bird River greenstone belt is an Archean greenstone belt in southeastern Manitoba, Canada. See also *Volcanism of Canada *Volcanism of Western Canada *List of greenstone belts This is a list of greenstone belts Africa Burkina Faso * Hounde ...

(Manitoba) *

Ecstall Greenstone Belt The Ecstall Greenstone Belt is a north-northwest trending greenstone belt in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains between the communities of Prince Rupert and Kitimat, in the vicinity of ...

(British Columbia) * Ennadai greenstone belt (Saskatchewan) * Flin Flon greenstone belt (Manitoba/Saskatchewan) *

Hope Bay greenstone belt The Hope Bay greenstone belt, also called the Hope Bay volcanic belt, is a long Archean greenstone belt in western Nunavut, Canada. It consists of mostly mafic volcanic rocks and contains three major gold deposits called Boston, Doris and Naartok ...

(Nunavut) *

Hunt River greenstone belt The Hunt River greenstone belt, also called the Hunt River volcanic belt, is a northeast trending Mesoarchean greenstone belt in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, located along the coast of Labrador about west of the town of Hopedale. It is lo ...

(Newfoundland and Labrador) * Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (Quebec) * Red Lake greenstone belt (Ontario) * Rice Lake greenstone belt (Manitoba) *

Swayze greenstone belt The Swayze greenstone belt is a late Archean greenstone belt in northern Ontario, Canada. It is the southwestern extension of the Abitibi greenstone belt. See also * Volcanism of Canada *Volcanism of Eastern Canada *List of volcanoes in Canada ...

(Ontario) * Temagami Greenstone Belt (Ontario) * Yellowknife greenstone belt (Northwest Territories)

Greenland

* Isua greenstone belt (Southwestern Greenland)

United States

* Elmers Rock greenstone belt (Wyoming) *

Franciscan Assemblage The Franciscan Complex or Franciscan Assemblage is a geologic term for a late Mesozoic terrane of heterogeneous rocks found throughout the California Coast Ranges, and particularly on the San Francisco Peninsula. It was named by geologist And ...

(California) * Rattlesnake Hills greenstone belt (Wyoming) *

Seminoe Mountains greenstone belt The Seminoe Mountains greenstone belt represents a fragment of an Archean greenstone terrane within the Wyoming craton. The greenstone belt was mapped by Hausel,Hausel, W.D., 1994, Economic Geology of the Seminoe Mountains Greenstone Belt, Wyom ...

(Wyoming) *

South Pass greenstone belt The South Pass greenstone belt (2.8 Ga) is located within the Wyoming craton in the US. The region was the site of Wyoming's initial gold discovery in 1842. Economic geology Gold was discovered in the Lewiston district of the South Pass granite-g ...

(Wyoming)

South America

Brazil

* Santa Rita greenstone belt

Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil

Northern Guiana Shield greenstone belt Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ...

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

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