Neoarchean to paleoproterozoic evolution of the polymetamorphic central zone of the Limpopo Complex

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 207, Issue , 2011, Pages 213-244

  Smit, C André ^a   Van Reenen, Dirk D ^a   Roering, Chris ^a   Boshoff, René ^a   Perchuk, Leonid L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSHVELD IGNEOUS COMPLEXES; COMPOSITE DEFORMATION; COMPRESSIONAL; CRUSTAL LEVELS; ISOTHERMAL DECOMPRESSION; MARGINAL ZONE; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

GALLIUM;

ARCHEAN; COLLISION ZONE; COOLING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GRANITOID; METAMORPHISM; P-T CONDITIONS; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BUSHVELD COMPLEX; KAAPVAAL CRATON; LIMPOPO BELT; SOUTH AFRICA; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

EID: 80051905695     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.1207(12)     Document Type: Article

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