Archean age for the granulite facies metamorphism near the center of the Vredefort structure, South Africa

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1091-1094

  Hart, Rodger ^a   Moser, Desmond ^b,d   Andreoli, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c NECSA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DIAMOND DEPOSITS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEAD ALLOYS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

BUSHVELD COMPLEX; GRANULITE FACIES; HIGH GRADE METAMORPHISM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EVENTS; IMPACT STRUCTURES; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; UPB ZIRCON AGE (SHRIMP);

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

GRANULITE FACIES; IMPACT STRUCTURE; METAMORPHISM; PROTEROZOIC;

SOUTH AFRICA; VREDEFORT STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033507639     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<1091:AAFTGF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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