Sedimentary petrography and provenance of the Archean Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 329, Issue , 1999, Pages 259-286

  Heubeck, Christoph ^a,b   Lowe, Donald R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; FELDSPAR; MODAL ANALYSIS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

FORELAND BASIN; GNEISS COMPLEXES; GREENSTONE BELTS; MONOCRYSTALLINE; PLUTONIC ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHALLOW MARINE; STRUCTURAL MAPPING;

QUARTZ;

ARCHEAN; CHERT; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FELDSPAR GROUP; GREENSTONE BELT; PETROGRAPHY; PLUTONIC ROCK; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 84871184567     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2329-9.259     Document Type: Article

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