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

Buick, IanHermann, JoergMaas, RolandGibson, Roger L.2015-12-070024-4937http://hdl.handle.net/1885/24565In 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: 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; TitaniteThe timing of sub-solidus hydrothermal alteration in the Central Zone, Limpopo Belt (South Africa): constraints from titanite U-Pb geochronology and REE partitioning200710.1016/j.lithos.2007.02.0022015-12-07