Structural analysis of the collar of the Vredefort Dome, South Africa - Significance for impact-related deformation and central uplift formation

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1537-1554

  Wieland, Frank ^a   Gibson, Roger L ^a   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VREDEFORT DOME;

EID: 29244457231     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00416.x     Document Type: Article

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