Structural divisions and development of the West-Central part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 329, Issue , 1999, Pages 37-82

  Lowe, Donald R ^a   Byerly, Gary R ^b   Heubeck, Christoph ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FORESTRY; SEDIMENTATION; SEPARATION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

BOUNDED DOMAIN; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GREENSTONE BELTS; NORMAL FAULTING; PLANAR STRUCTURE; TECTONIC HISTORY; THRUST FAULTING; TREE FORMATION;

FAULT SLIPS;

ANTICLINE; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GREENSTONE BELT; SEDIMENTATION; VOLCANIC ARC; VOLCANIC BELT;

BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 84871226592     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2329-9.37     Document Type: Article

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