Untying the Kibaran knot: a reassessment of Mesoproterozoic correlations in southern Africa based on SHRIMP U-Pb data from the Irumide belt

The Irumide belt is part of a network of late Mesoproterozoic Kibaran-age orogens in south-central Africa. Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb zircon ages for gneisses, migmatites, and granitoids indicate that peak Irumide metamorphism was ca. 1020 Ma and that this was associated...

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Main Authors: De Waele, Bert, Wingate, Michael, Fitzsimons, Ian, Mapani, B.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Geological Society of America 2003
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35310