Decompressional heating of the Mahalapye Complex (Limpopo Belt, Botswana): A response to Palaeoproterozoic magmatic underplating?

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 703-729

  Millonig, Leo ^a   Zeh, Armin ^a,f   Gerdes, Axel ^b   Klemd, Reiner ^c   Barton Jr , Jackson M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Geowissenschaften   (Germany)

^c Geoforschungszentrum Nordbayern   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^e Institut Für Geologische Wissenschaften ^*  (South Africa)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bushveld; Limpopo belt; Lu Hf isotopes; Magmatic underplating; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; DECOMPRESSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANODIORITE; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LUTETIUM; MANTLE SOURCE; METASEDIMENT; P-T-T PATH; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION; UNDERPLATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

LIMPOPO BELT;

EID: 77749264437     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egp097     Document Type: Article

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