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The timing of sub-solidus hydrothermal alteration in the Central Zone, Limpopo Belt (South Africa): constraints from titanite U-Pb geochronology and REE partitioning

Date

Authors

Buick, Ian

Hermann, Joerg

Maas, Roland

Gibson, Roger L.

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

In the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa), Palaeoproterozoic granulite-facies metamorphism was superimposed on an earlier Archaean orogenic history. Previously determined ages of ∼ 2030-2020 Ma obtained from high-temperature chronometers (

Keywords

Keywords: geochronology; granulite facies; hydrothermal alteration; inductively coupled plasma method; metabasite; metamorphism; partitioning; pegmatite; Proterozoic; retrogression; titanite; uranium-lead dating; Africa; Limpopo Belt; Southern Africa; Sub-Saharan A Central Zone; Geochronology; Limpopo Belt; Retrogression; Titanite

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/24565

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Lithos

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.lithos.2007.02.002

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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