A vestige of Earth's oldest ophiolite

作者:Furnes Harald*; de Wit Maarten; Staudigel Hubert; Rosing Minik; Muehlenbachs Karlis
来源:Science, 2007, 315(5819): 1704-1707.
DOI:10.1126/science.1139170

摘要

A sheeted-dike complex within the similar to 3.8-billion-year-old Isua supracrustal belt (ISB) in southwest Greenland provides the oldest evidence of oceanic crustal accretion by spreading. The geochemistry of the dikes and associated pillow lavas demonstrates an intraoceanic island arc and mid-ocean ridge-like setting, and their oxygen isotopes suggest a hydrothermal ocean-floor-type metamorphism. The pillows and dikes are associated with gabbroic and ultramafic rocks that together make up an ophiolitic association: the Paleoarchean Isua ophiolite complex. These sheeted dikes offer evidence for remnants of oceanic crust formed by sea-floor spreading of the earliest intact rocks on Earth.

  • 出版日期2007-3-23
  • 单位中国地质博物馆