Provenance and reconnaissance study of detrital zircons of the Palaeozoic Cape Supergroup in South Africa: Revealing the interaction of the Kalahari and Río de la Plata cratons

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 527-541

  Fourie, Pieter H ^a   Zimmermann, Udo ^a,b   Beukes, Nicolas J ^a   Naidoo, Thanusha ^a,b   Kobayashi, Katsuro ^c   Kosler, Jan ^d   Nakamura, Eizo ^c   Tait, Jenny ^e   Theron, Johannes N ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cape Supergroup; Detrital zircon age dating; Gondwana; Palaeozoic; Provenance; R o de la Plata and Kalahari Craton

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; PALEOZOIC; PROVENANCE; ZIRCON;

KALAHARI CRATON; RIO DE LA PLATA;

EID: 79951906549     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-010-0619-x     Document Type: Article

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