Contribution to the structure at the eastern margin of the Archaean Zimbabwe craton, Mozambique

Special Paper of the Geological Survey of Finland

Volumn 2008, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 121-144

  Koistinen, Tapio ^a   Lehtonen, Matti I ^a   Fernando, Sérgio ^b   Matola, Rogério ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b National Directorate of Geology   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Archaean; Cratons; Domes; Gneisses; Granites; Greenstone belts; Mesoproterozoic; Mozambique; Neoproterozoic; Palaeoproterozoic; Schists; Shear zones; Tectonics; Thrust sheets

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DOME; GNEISS; GRANITE; LITHOLOGY; MAGMATISM; PEGMATITE; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THRUST;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

EID: 50549099841     PISSN: 07828535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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