SHRIMP U-Pb zircon and Sm-Nd garnet ages from the granulite-facies basement of SE Kenya: Evidence for Neoproterozoic polycyclic assembly of the Mozambique Belt

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 189-201

  Hauzenberger, Christoph A ^a   Sommer, Holger ^b   Fritz, Harald ^a   Bauerhofer, Andreas ^a   Kröner, Alfred ^b   Hoinkes, Georg ^a   Wallbrecher, Eckart ^a   Thöni, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; GRANULITE FACIES; METAMORPHISM; MIGMATITE; SHEAR ZONE; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AFRICA; MOZAMBIQUE BELT; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33846198307     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492005-081     Document Type: Article

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