Continental setting inferred for emplacement of the 2.9-2.7 Ga Belingwe Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe: Comment

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Hofmann, Axel ^a   Dirks, Paul H G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GREENSTONE BELT; LITERATURE REVIEW; TECTONIC SETTING;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 77956751536     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613-31.1.e30     Document Type: Note

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