Growth-fault structure and stratigraphic architecture of the Buck Ridge volcano-sedimentary complex, upper Hooggenoeg Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

Precambrian Research

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 77-98

  de Vries, Sjoukje T ^a   Nijman, Wouter ^a   Armstrong, Richard A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barberton Greenstone Belt; Early Archaean; Early extension; Geochronology; Onverwacht Group; Syndepositional normal faulting

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BASALT; DEFORMATION; FELSIC ROCK; GREENSTONE BELT; GROWTH FAULT; LISTRIC FAULT; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SHALLOW WATER; SHRIMP DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT; KAAPVAAL CRATON; PILBARA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33748414167     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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