The Limpopo metamorphic belt, South Africa: 1. Geological setting and relationship of the granulite complex with the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons

Petrology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 562-570

  Van Reenen, D D ^a   Smit, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

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