Untying the Kibaran knot: A reassessment of Mesoproterozoic correlations in southern Africa based on SHRIMP U-Pb data from the Irumide belt

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 509-512

  De Waele, Bert ^a   Wingate, Michael T D ^b   Fitzsimons, Ian C W ^a   Mapani, Benjamin S E ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Correlation; Kibaran orogeny; Mesoproterozoic; SHRIMP data; Southern Africa; Zambia

Indexed keywords

IRUMIDE BELT;

CORRELATION METHODS; LITHOLOGY; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONICS; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AFRICA;

EID: 0037932614     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0509:UTKKAR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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