Continental setting inferred for emplacement of the 2.9-2.7 Ga Belingwe Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 295-298

  Bolhar, Robert ^a   Woodhead, Jon D ^a   Hergt, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archean; Belingwe; Crustal contamination; Greenstone Belt; Komatiite; Zimbabwe craton

Indexed keywords

GENESIS;

COMPOSITION; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENSTONE BELT; PETROGENESIS;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0037965620     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0295:CSIFEO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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