The history of granulite-facies metamorphism and crustal growth from single zircon U-Pb geochronology: Namaqualand, South Africa

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1747-1770

  Robb, L J ^a   Armstrong, R A ^b   Waters, D J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Granulite; Mid crust; Namaqualand; U Pb zircon

Indexed keywords

GRANULITE FACIES; METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NAMAQUALAND; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033368848     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petroj/40.12.1747     Document Type: Article

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