The timing of sub-solidus hydrothermal alteration in the Central Zone, Limpopo Belt (South Africa): constraints from titanite U-Pb geochronology and REE partitioning
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2007
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Buick, Ian
Hermann, Joerg
Maas, Roland
Gibson, Roger L.
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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 (
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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
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