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Ketilidian orogeny

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The Ketilidian orogeny was a late Paleoproterozoic mountain-building event that affected southern Greenland during the period 1.85 to 1.72 Ga. The orogenic belt formed during this event forms the southern boundary to the mainly Archaean North Atlantic Craton.[1]

References

  1. ^ Garde A.A.; Hamilton; Chadwick B.; Grocott J.; McCaffrey K.J.W. (2002). "The Ketilidian orogen of South Greenland: geochronology, tectonics, magmatism, and fore-arc accretion during Palaeoproterozoic oblique convergence" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 39: 765–793. doi:10.1139/E02-026.
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