An isotopic and geochemical study of the northern Kaapvaal Craton and the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt: Are they juxtaposed terranes?

Lithos

Volumn 50, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 1-25

  Kreissig, Katharina ^a   Nägler, Thomas F ^a   Kramers, Jan D ^a   Van Reenen, Dirk D ^b   Smit, C André ^b  

^a Isotopengeologie   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Archean; Geochemistry; Isotopes; Limpopo Belt; Plate tectonics; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PLATE TECTONICS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 17444443354     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-4937(99)00037-7     Document Type: Article

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