The stratigraphy of the 3.5-3.2 Ga Barberton Greenstone Belt revisited: a single zircon ion microprobe study

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 90-106

  Armstrong, R A ^a,b,c   Compston, W ^a   de Wit, M J ^c   Williams, I S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT; GREENSTONE BELT; ION MICROPROBE ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

SOUTH AFRICA, TRANSVAAL;

EID: 0025683895     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(90)90127-J     Document Type: Article

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