The Messina Layered Intrusion, Limpopo Belt, South Africa: An example of in-situ contamination of an Archean anorthosite complex by continental crust

Precambrian Research

Volumn 78, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 139-150

  Barton Jr , Jackson M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; ARCHAEAN; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA COMPOSITION;

SOUTH AFRICA, LIMPOPO BELT;

EID: 0029752442     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-9268(95)00074-7     Document Type: Article

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