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Kangamiut dike swarm

geological feature, Greenland
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  • geologic time
    Precambrian
    / Basic dikes

    95-billion-year-old Kangamiut swarm in western Greenland is only about 250 km (155 miles) long but is one of the world’s densest continental dike swarms. Many of the major dike swarms were intruded on the continental margins of Proterozoic oceans in a manner similar to the dikes


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    95-billion-year-old Kangamiut swarm in western Greenland is only about 250 km (155 miles) long but is one of the world’s densest continental dike swarms. Many of the major dike swarms were intruded on the continental margins of Proterozoic oceans in a manner similar to the dikes


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