This is a list of greenstone belts

Africa

Burkina Faso

* Hounde greenstone belt * Boromo greenstone belt

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kilo-Moto Kilo-Moto is a region in the far northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where gold was discovered in the Ituri River by government prospectors in 1903. Moto is in the Haut-Uélé Province and Kilo in the Ituri Province. ...

Angola

* Lufico - Cabinda *

Cassinga Cassinga or Kassinga is a town and commune in the municipality of Jamba, province of Huíla, Angola. It is situated on an old and important two-track road from Jamba to Huambo. Established as an ore mine and during the Civil War allegedly u ...

South Africa

Barberton greenstone belt The Barberton Greenstone Belt is situated on the eastern edge of Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa. It is known for its gold mineralisation and for its komatiites, an unusual type of ultramafic volcanic rock named after the Komati River that flows t ...

* Pietersberg greenstone belt

Tanzania

* Kilimafedha greenstone belt * Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt * Nzega Greenstone Belt

Zimbabwe

* 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

Russia

Kostomuksha greenstone belt Kostomuksha (russian: Костому́кша; krl, Koštamuš; fi, Kostamus; vep, Kostamukš) is a town in the northwest of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located from the border with Finland, on the shore of Lake Kontoki. Population: Ge ...

Finland

Central Lapland Greenstone Belt The Central Lapland Greenstone Belt (CLGB) is a greenstone belt located in the northern part of the Fennoscandian Shield. The region belongs to Lapland, northern Finland. The CLGB is part of a much larger belt of Paleoproterozoic greenstones, a c ...

(Lapland) * Tipasjärvi-Kuhmo-Suomussalmi greenstone belt

Norway

* Mauken greenstone belt

Oceania

Harris greenstone belt Harris may refer to: Places Canada * Harris, Ontario * Northland Pyrite Mine (also known as Harris Mine) * Harris, Saskatchewan * Rural Municipality of Harris No. 316, Saskatchewan Scotland * Harris, Outer Hebrides (sometimes called the Isle ...

(Australia) *

Jack Hills greenstone belt Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA People and fictional characters * Jack (given name), a male given name, ...

(Australia) * Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt (Australia) *

Saddleback greenstone belt Saddleback may refer to: Fauna * Saddleback (bird), two species of New Zealand bird of the family Callaeidae ** North Island saddleback, the North Island species ** South Island saddleback, the South Island species * Saddleback caterpillar, ''Ac ...

(Australia) *

Southern Cross greenstone belt Southern may refer to: Businesses * China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China * Southern Airways, defunct US airline * Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US * Southern Airways Express, ...

(Australia) * Yandal greenstone belt (Australia) * Yalgoo-Singleton greenstone belt (Australia)

North America

Canada

Abitibi greenstone belt The Abitibi greenstone belt is a 2,800-to-2,600-million-year-old greenstone belt that spans across the Ontario–Quebec border in Canada. It is mostly made of volcanic rocks, but also includes ultramafic rocks, mafic intrusions, granitoid rocks, ...

(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 (British Columbia) * Ennadai greenstone belt (Saskatchewan) *

Flin Flon greenstone belt The Flin Flon greenstone belt, also referred to as the Flin Flon – Snow Lake greenstone belt, is a Precambrian greenstone belt located in the central area of Manitoba and east-central Saskatchewan, Canada (near Flin Flon). It lies in the central ...

(Manitoba/Saskatchewan) * Hope Bay greenstone belt (Nunavut) * Hunt River greenstone belt (Newfoundland and Labrador) *

Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB; Inuktitut: ) is a sequence of metamorphosed mafic to ultramafic Volcanic rock, volcanic and associated sedimentary rocks (a greenstone belt) located on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, 40 km southeast of ...

(Quebec) *

Red Lake greenstone belt The Red Lake greenstone belt is an Archean greenstone belt at the town of Red Lake, Ontario, Red Lake in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It consists of basaltic and komatiite, komatiitic volcanics ranging in age from 2,925 to 2,940 million y ...

(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 *List ...

(Ontario) *

Temagami Greenstone Belt The Temagami Greenstone Belt (TGB) is a small 2.7 billion year old greenstone belt in the Temagami region of Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It represents a feature of the Superior craton, an ancient and stable part of the Earth's lithosphere ...

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Yellowknife greenstone belt The Yellowknife greenstone belt, also called the Yellowknife Volcanic Belt, is an Archean greenstone belt in the southern Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is mostly made of mafic volcanic rocks (basalt and andesite) and is bordered ...

(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 Andr ...

(California) *

Rattlesnake Hills greenstone belt The Rattlesnake Hills greenstone belt represents a fragment of a partially exposed synformal Archean greenstone belt within the Wyoming craton that was intruded by Cenozoic alkalic volcanics. The supracrustal belt has been subjected to multiphas ...

(Wyoming) * Seminoe Mountains greenstone belt (Wyoming) * South Pass greenstone belt (Wyoming)

South America

Brazil

* Santa Rita greenstone belt

Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil

* Northern Guiana Shield greenstone beltR. 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

References

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Greenstone belts 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 h ...