Subaqueous to subaerial Archean ultramafic phreatomagmatic volcanism, Kromberg Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 329, Issue , 1999, Pages 151-166

  Ransom, Barbara ^a   Byerly, Gary R ^b   Lowe, Donald R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; MINERALS; REEFS; TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ACCRETIONARY LAPILLI; ARCHEAN GREENSTONE BELTS; ELEMENT CHEMISTRY; EXPLOSION CRATER; LOW TEMPERATURE ALTERATION; MAFIC VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS; PYROCLASTIC ROCKS; VERY SHALLOW WATERS;

PILES;

ANTICLINE; ARCHEAN; CAPPING; CHERT; CRATER; CRATERING; GREENSTONE; PHREATOMAGMATISM; PILE; SHALLOW WATER; SHOALING WAVE; SYNCLINE; TEPHRA; TUFF; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 67650261565     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2329-9.151     Document Type: Article

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