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Provenance and tectonic significance of the Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary successions of central and northern Madagascar

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2011

Authors

De Waele, B.
Thomas, R. J
Macey, P. H
Horstwood, M. S. A
Tucker, R. D
Pitfield, P. E. J
Schofield, D. I
Goodenough, K. M
Bauer, W
Key, R. M

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Elsevier

Abstract

New detrital zircon U-Pb age data obtained from various quartzite units of three spatially separated supracrustal packages in central and northern Madagascar, show that these units were deposited between 1.8 and 0.8. Ga and have similar aged provenances.

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Keywords: deposition; detrital deposit; Gondwana; metasedimentary rock; orogeny; Proterozoic; provenance; quartzite; source rock; supracrustal rock; suture zone; tectonics; terrane; uranium-lead dating; zircon; Antananarivo [Madagascar]; East Africa; Madagascar Detrital provenance; East African Orogen; Gondwana; Palaeoproterozoic; Tectonics; U-Pb dating

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/51703

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ANU Research Publications

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Precambrian Research

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10.1016/j.precamres.2011.04.004

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