The Limpopo Belt: A result of Archean to Proterozoic, Turkic-type orogenesis?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 405, Issue , 2006, Pages 315-332

  Barton Jr , J M ^a   Zeh, A ^a,b   Klemd, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Limpopo belt; P T time paths; Tectonics; Terranes; Turkic orogenesis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION;

CONTINENT-CONTINENT COLLISIONS; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC HISTORY; TERRANES; TURKIC OROGENESIS;

TECTONICS;

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRATON; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC CRUST; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSTENSION;

ALPS; HIMALAYAS; LIMPOPO BELT; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 34547869956     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2405(16)     Document Type: Article

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