Unraveling the record of successive high grade events in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt using Pb single phase dating of metamorphic minerals

Precambrian Research

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 87-115

  Holzer, L ^a   Frei, R ^a   Barton Jr , J M ^b   Kramers, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Archean; Geochronology; Granulite facies; Limpopo Belt; Palaeoproterozoic; Pb isotopes; Polymetamorphic

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANULITE FACIES; METAMORPHISM; PRECAMBRIAN;

AFRICA, LIMPOPO BELT;

EID: 0031843442     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-9268(97)00058-2     Document Type: Article

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