The metasediments of the aggeneys terra ne in the Namaqua Mobile Belt: Sedimentary response to extensional-compressional variations in a continental environment

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 101-110

  Praekelt, H E ^a   Schoch, A E ^a   Visser, J N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; EXTENSION; FORELAND BASIN; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SULPHIDE;

NAMIBIA, NAMAQUA MOBILE BELT; SOUTH AFRICA, NAMAQUA MOBILE BELT;

EID: 0031450073     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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