A 2.023 Ga age for the Vredefort impact event and a first report of shock metamorphosed zircons in pseudotachylitic breccias and Granophyre

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 369-387

  Kamo, S L ^a   Reimold, W U ^b   Krogh, T E ^a   Colliston, W P ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Meteor craters; Shock metamorphism; South Africa; U Pb; Vredefort Dome; Zircon

Indexed keywords

IMPACT EVENT; PROTEROZOIC; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; SHOCK METAMORPHISM; URANIUM/LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

SOUTH AFRICA, VREDEFORT STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030437492     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(96)00180-x     Document Type: Article

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