Lower crustal granulite formation during Mesoproterozoic Namaqua-Natal collisional orogenesis, southern Africa

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 261-284

  Schmitz, Mark D ^a   Bowring, Samuel A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 4444296493     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/107.1-2.261     Document Type: Article

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