A reevaluation of Archean intracratonic terrane boundaries on the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: Collisional suture zones?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 405, Issue , 2006, Pages 193-210

  Anhaeusser, Carl R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Archean suture zones; Intracratonic terrane boundaries; Kaapvaal craton; South africa

Indexed keywords

MAGNESITE; METALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

ARCHEAN; CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; DIFFERENTIATION PROCESS; KAAPVAAL; SERPENTINIZED ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; SOUTH AFRICA; TERRANE ACCRETION; ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; CRATON; DOME; DUNITE; GRANITOID; GREENSTONE BELT; HARZBURGITE; LHERZOLITE; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATE TECTONICS; PYROXENITE; SUTURE ZONE; TERRANE;

BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT; GAUTENG; JOHANNESBURG; KAAPVAAL CRATON; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 73949112834     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2405(11)     Document Type: Article

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