Modal metasomatism in the Kaapvaal craton lithosphere: Constraints on timing and genesis from U-Pb zircon dating of metasomatized peridotites and MARID-type xenoliths

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 704-719

  Konzett, Jürgen ^a   Armstrong, Richard A ^b   Günther, Detlef ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATON; METASOMATISM; MINERAL ALTERATION; PERIDOTITE;

KAAPVAAL CRATON; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033731973     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100000160     Document Type: Article

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