Syntectonic emplacement and deformation of the Heerenveen batholith: Conjectures on the structural setting of the 3.1 Ga granite magmatism in the Barberton granite-greenstone terrain, South Africa

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 405, Issue , 2006, Pages 211-231

  Belcher, Richard W ^a   Kisters, Alexander F M ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Archean geology; Barberton granite greenstone terrain; Granite emplacement; Kaapvaal Craton

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS;

ARCHEAN; BARBERTON; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; GRANITE EMPLACEMENT; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; KAAPVAAL; PROGRESSIVE DEFORMATION; SYNTECTONIC INTRUSIONS;

GRANITE;

BATHOLITH; COLLAPSE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; GRANITE; GREENSTONE BELT; KINEMATICS; MAGMATISM; ORIENTATION; TECTONICS; TERRAIN;

BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT; KAAPVAAL CRATON; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 33747859359     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2405(12)     Document Type: Article

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