A review of the stratigraphy and geological setting of the Palaeoproterozoic Magondi Supergroup, Zimbabwe - Type locality for the Lomagundi carbon isotope excursion

Precambrian Research

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 254-273

  Master, Sharad ^a   Bekker, Andrey ^b   Hofmann, Axel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Lomagundi anomaly; Magondi; Palaeoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ARCHEAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEFORMATION; GREENSCHIST; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METAMORPHISM; PROTEROZOIC; UNCONFORMITY;

ZIMBABWE CRATON;

EID: 77957870270     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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