Successive midcrustal, high-grade metamorphic events provide insight into mid-archean mountain-building along the se margin of the proto-kaapvaal craton

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1191-1211

  Taylor, J ^a   Stevens, G ^a   Buick, I S ^a   Lana, C ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBERTON; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DEEP BURIALS; GREENSTONE BELTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION; MAGMATISMS; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; MINERAL EQUILIBRIA; OROGENIC EVENTS; OROGENS; PALEOARCHEAN; PARTIAL MELTING; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

GALLIUM;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; CONSOLIDATION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; GNEISS; GREENSTONE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENT; P-T-T PATH; PARTIAL MELTING; SELENIUM;

KAAPVAAL CRATON;

EID: 84865174195     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30543.1     Document Type: Article

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