The Tete-chipata belt: A new multiple terrane element from Western Mozambique and Southern Zambia

Special Paper of the Geological Survey of Finland

Volumn 2008, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 145-166

  Westerhof, A B Phil ^a,d   Lehtonen, Matti I ^b   Mäkitie, Hannu ^b   Manninen, Tuomo ^b   Pekkala, Yrjö ^b   Gustafsson, Bosse ^c   Tahon, André ^d  

^a Westcourt GeoConsult ^*  (Netherlands)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gondwana; Grenvillian Orogeny; Irumide Belt; Mesoproterozoic; Mozambique; Neoproterozoic; Pan African Orogeny; Phanerozoic; Tectonics; Terranes; Tete

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; EMPLACEMENT; GEODYNAMICS; GNEISS; GONDWANA; GRANITOID; GRANULITE; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PEGMATITE; PLATE TECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; SUTURE ZONE; TERRANE; THRUST;

AFRICA; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TETE; ZAMBIA;

EID: 50549096911     PISSN: 07828535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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