The Limpopo metamorphic belt, South Africa: 2. Decompression and cooling regimes of granulites and adjacent rocks of the Kaapvaal craton

Petrology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 571-599

  Perchuk, L L ^a   Gerya, T V ^b   Van Reenen, D D ^c   Safonov, O G ^a   Smit, C A ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

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