Cameron River Volcanic Belt

Short description: Volcanic belt in the Nunavut, Canada

The Cameron River Volcanic Belt is a Neoarchean volcanic belt near the Cameron River in Nunavut, Canada.[1] It is part of the Slave Craton and contains pillow lavas about 2,600 million years old, indicating that great oceanic volcanoes existed during the early stages of the formation of Earth's crust.

## References

1. ↑ Mills, Hannah K.; Piercey, Stephen J.; Toole, Trish (2016). "Geology, alteration, and lithogeochemistry of the Hood volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits, Nunavut, Canada". Mineralium Deposita 51 (4): 533–556. doi:10.1007/s00126-015-0612-1.

## See also

* List of volcanoes in Canada
* Volcanism of Canada
* Volcanism of Northern Canada

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