The Murchison Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Accreted slivers with contrasting metamorphic conditions
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Depositional and tectonic setting of the Archean Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa.
The 3.22-3.10 Ga old Moodies Group, uppermost unit of the Swaziland Supergroup in the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB), is the oldest exposed, well-preserved quartz-rich sedimentary sequence on earth. It is preserved in structurally separate blocks in a heavily deformed fold-and-thrust belt. North of the Inyoka Fault, Moodies strata reach up to 3700 m in thickness. Detailed mapping, correlation ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Precambrian Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0301-9268
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.03.005