Geology of the Northwest Territories province from dikes and mafic lava flows, overlain by deep ocean turbidite deposits. These rocks are believed to be the remains of oceanic crust that ended up preserved, surrounded on all sides by felsic volcanic rocks and granitoid plutons. In the area of Snofleld Lake in the northern part of the Slave Province, the remains of Archean stromatolites are preserved in a dolomite unit between felsic volcanic and greywacke-mudstone turbidites, some of the earliest evidence of life, forming in the shallows around volcanic islands. Around 1.27 billion years ago in the Proterozoic, a series of major magmatic events affected the
Archean felsic volcanic rocks their mineral assemblages, rock chemistry and rock layer relationship in the sequences. Archean felsic volcanic rocks are utilised to date the timing of geological events and match distant rock units in separated Archean cratons. They are important to reconstruct Archean geological environments. Felsic granitoids are the most prevalent rock type in Archean terranes. These intrusive felsic igneous rocks include TTG suites (Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite) that contributes over half the portion of Archean cratons. They have implications in finding how the felsic volcanic rocks were formed and related to the granitoids. Archean felsic volcanic rocks are only preserved in Archean cratons. A craton