Timing and kinematics of the Colenso Fault: The Early Paleozoic shift from collisional to extensional tectonics in the Pan-African Saldania Belt, South Africa

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-270

  Kisters, Alexander F M ^a   Belcher, Richard W ^a   Scheepers, Reyno ^a   Rozendaal, Abraham ^a   Jordaan, L Smith ^a   Armstrong, Richard A ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SALDANIA BELT; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 0036767726     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/1050257     Document Type: Article

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