Single zircon ages for granitoid gneisses in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, Southern Africa and geodynamic significance

1999 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Kröner
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Central Zone ◽  
Single Zircon ◽  
Granitoid Gneisses ◽  
Limpopo Belt

A Discussion on the evolution of the Precambrian crust - The Limpopo mobile belt — Southern Africa

1973 ◽  
Vol 273 (1235) ◽  
pp. 463-485 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Shear Deformation ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Central Zone ◽  
Kaapvaal Craton ◽  
Mobile Belt ◽  
High Grade ◽  
The South ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
The North ◽  
Limpopo Belt

The Limpopo belt is an extensive ENE-trending linear zone of high-grade metamorphic tectonites which separates the Archaean nucleii of the Rhodesian craton to the north from the Kaapvaal craton to the south. The belt consists of reworked Archaean granite-greenstone terrain with an early Proterozoic cover sequence, the Messina Formation, infolded and metamorphosed with the basement. Two major zones of shearing and transcurrent dislocation separate marginal granulite zones from a central zone which consists of complexly infolded cover rocks and reworked basement. The northern granulite zone appears to grade transitionally into the Rhodesian craton to the north, whereas there is some evidence that the southern granulite zone is faulted against the Kaapvaal craton to the south. The whole belt has behaved as a zone of crustal weakness throughout geological time, and is characterized by repeated shear deformation, igneous intrusion and extrusion, despite the cessation of major regional tectono-thermal reactivation about 1900 Ma ago.

Two orogenic events separated by 2.6Ga mafic dykes in the Central Zone, Limpopo Belt, southern Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 289 ◽  
pp. 129-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hangqiang Xie ◽  
Alfred Kröner ◽  
Günther Brandl ◽  
Yusheng Wan
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Central Zone ◽  
Mafic Dykes ◽  
Orogenic Events ◽  
Limpopo Belt

Geochronology of the Hout River Shear Zone and the metamorphism in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt, Southern Africa

2001 ◽  
Vol 109 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 145-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Kreissig ◽  
L Holzer ◽  
R Frei ◽  
I.M Villa ◽  
J.D Kramers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zone ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Marginal Zone ◽  
Southern Marginal Zone ◽  
Limpopo Belt

Petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks of komatiitic composition from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa: Evidence from O and H isotopes

2018 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 68-77
Author(s):  
Tapabrato Sarkar ◽  
Elena O. Dubinina ◽  
Chris Harris ◽  
Wolfgang D. Maier ◽  
Hassina Mouri
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Central Zone ◽  
Ultramafic Rocks ◽  
Limpopo Belt
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