SHRIMP zircon age constraints on Mesoarchean crustal development in the Vredefort dome, central Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 405, Issue , 2006, Pages 233-253

  Armstrong, Richard A ^a   Lana, Cristiano ^b,d   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^b,c   Gibson, Roger L ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archean tectonics; Kaapvaal craton; SHRIMP; Vredefort dome; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DOMES; LEAD ALLOYS; LITHOLOGY; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SHELLFISH; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; KAAPVAAL; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; SHRIMP; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; U-PB ZIRCON DATING;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; APLITE; ARCHEAN; CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DOME; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GRANITOID; ION MICROPROBE; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; MAPPING; PARTIAL MELTING; SHIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ZIRCON;

FREE STATE; KAAPVAAL CRATON; SOUTH AFRICA; VREDEFORT DOME;

EID: 73949109488     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2405(13)     Document Type: Article

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