The volcano-sedimentary succession of the Archean Sodium Group, Ventersdorp Supergroup, South Africa: Volcanology, sedimentology and geochemistry

Precambrian Research

Volumn 214-215, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-81

  Altermann, Wladyslaw ^a   Lenhardt, Nils ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Archean volcano sedimentary successions; Kaapvaal craton; Large igneous province; Omdraaivlei; Ongers river formations; Sodium group; T'Kuip; Ventersdorp supergroup

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRATON; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRABEN; GRANITE; HORST; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PHREATOMAGMATISM; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANISM; VOLCANOLOGY;

KAAPVAAL CRATON; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

EID: 84865365493     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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