Provenance and Tectonic Setting of the Metasedimentary Rocks of the Neoproterozoic Adola Belt of Southern Ethiopia

Gondwana Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-386

  Yibas, Bisrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adola Megado; Arabian Nubian shield; Boninite; East African orogen; Mozambique belt; Supra subduction zone(SSZ)

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL ARC; GRAYWACKE; ISLAND ARC; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PETROGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACE ELEMENT;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0005638661     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70277-X     Document Type: Article

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