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The occurrence of four Precambrian shear zones in western Greenland may point to the existence of a lithospheric plate during Proterozoic times. The large scale, ductile, transcurrent movements can be interpreted as tectonically deeper expressions of major transcurrent faults and may represent the internal distortion of a Precambrian continental block.
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Bak, J., Sørensen, K., Grocott, J. et al. Tectonic implications of Precambrian shear belts in western Greenland. Nature 254, 566–569 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/254566a0
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