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68°10′06″N 31°43′01″W / 68.1683°N 31.7169°W / 68.1683; -31.7169 The Skaergaard intrusion is a layered igneous intrusion in the Kangerlussuaq area of East Greenland and is composed of various rocks and minerals including gabbro, olivine, apatite, and basalt.[1]

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Skaergaard intrusion

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/ 68.1683°N 31.7169°W / 68.1683; -31.7169 The Skaergaard intrusion is a layered igneous intrusion in the Kangerlussuaq area of East Greenland and is...

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Layered intrusion

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they may be any age such as the Cenozoic Skaergaard intrusion of east Greenland or the Rum layered intrusion in Scotland. Although most are ultramafic...

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Magma chamber

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ISSN 0026-461X. McBirney AR (1996). "The Skaergaard intrusion". In Cawthorn RG (ed.). Layered intrusions. Developments in petrology. Vol. 15. pp. 147–180...

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Gabbro

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the Origin of Ophitic Texture in the Chilled Olivine Gabbro of the Skaergaard Intrusion". Geological Magazine. 98 (5): 353–366. Bibcode:1961GeoM...98..353W...

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Skaergaardite

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formula PdCu. The mineral is named after its discovery location: the Skaergaard intrusion, Kangerdlugssuaq area, East Greenland. The mineral name was approved...

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Lawrence Wager

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thinkers of his generation" and best remembered for his work on the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland, and for his attempt on Mount Everest in 1933. Wager...

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Norite

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layered intrusions which are often associated with platinum orebodies such as in the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa, the Skaergaard igneous...

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Geology of Greenland

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Paleoproterozoic), during the Ketilidian Orogeny. The Skaergaard intrusion is a layered mafic intrusion in eastern Greenland formed 55 million years ago during...

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Greenland

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Greenland there are remnants of flood basalts and igneous intrusions, such as the Skaergaard intrusion. Notable rock provinces (metamorphic igneous rocks, ultramafics...

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Magma

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NOYES, R. M. (1979-08-01). "Crystallization and Layering of the Skaergaard Intrusion". Journal of Petrology. 20 (3): 487–554. Bibcode:1979JPet...20..487M...

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Ejnar Mikkelsen

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Committee" that carried out the first archaeological excavations on the Skaergaard intrusion by the shores of the Kangerlussuaq Fjord. In 1970, on his 90th birthday...

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List of geologists

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Wager (1904–1965), British geologist and explorer, discovered the Skaergaard intrusion Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927), American paleontologist, discovered...

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Lopolith

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Bushveld igneous complex of South Africa, the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe, the Skaergaard complex of Greenland and the Humboldt lopolith of Nevada. The Sudbury...

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Cumulate rock

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magnetitite. A specific example is the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland. At Skaergaard a 2500 m thick layered intrusion shows distinct chemical and mineralogic...

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North Atlantic Igneous Province

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range of compositions. The Skaergaard intrusion (Early Cenozoic or about 55 million year age) is a layered gabbro (mafic) intrusion that has mineralized rock...

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William Alexander Deer

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Deer published their report of the expedition. This treatise on the Skaergaard intrusion is regarded as one of the most significant contributions to the science...

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Gino Watkins

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In addition to meeting these aims, the expedition discovered the Skaergaard intrusion, and Watkins and two companions, Percy Lemon and Augustine Courtauld...

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Pluton emplacement

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chamber to form by intrusion of magma by the extension rate. Skaergaard intrusion Daly, Reginald A. (1903). "The Mechanics of Igneous Intrusion". American Journal...

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Dunite

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Small layered intrusions may be of any geologic age, for example, the Triassic Palisades Sill in New York and the larger Eocene Skaergaard complex in Greenland...

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George Malcolm Brown

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received his D.Phil in 1954. Expeditions to Greenland to research the Skaergaard intrusion led Brown to a one-year Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University...

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