The character of the Moho and lower crust within Archean cratons and the tectonic implications

DH Abbott, WD Mooney, JA VanTongeren - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
Undisturbed mid Archean crust (stabilized by 3.0–2.9 Ga) has several characteristics that
distinguish it from post Archean crust. Undisturbed mid-Archean crust has a low proportion …

Genesis of Zixi gold deposit in Xuefengshan, Jiangnan Orogen (South China): Age, geology and isotopic constraints

C Wang, Y Shao, NJ Evans, H Li, K Huang, Z Liu… - Ore Geology …, 2020 - Elsevier
The medium-sized Zixi gold deposit is hosted in a meta-gabbro–diabase dike, and located
geologically in the Xuefengshan belt of the Jiangnan Orogen in South China. Gold-bearing …

New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous …

WC Clyde, P Wilf, A Iglesias, RL Slingerland… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A detailed Re-Os molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite geochronology at five shear-hosted
Au occurrences (Kenge, Mbenge, Porcupine, Konokono, and Dubwana) in the Lupa …

Geochronology of the central Tanzania Craton and its southern and eastern orogenic margins

RJ Thomas, C Spencer, AM Bushi, N Baglow… - Precambrian …, 2016 - Elsevier
Geological mapping and zircon U–Pb/Hf isotope data from 35 samples from the central
Tanzania Craton and surrounding orogenic belts to the south and east allow a revised …

Precambrian basement of the Congo Basin and its flanking terrains

MJ de Wit, B Linol - Geology and resource potential of the Congo Basin, 2014 - Springer
Africa's four major Proterozoic shields were tectonically separated from one-another within
the late Meso-to early Neo-Proterozoic Rodinia supercontinent along Rodinian mobile belts …

The Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution of the Clearwater block, northwestern Laurentia: Implications for the assembly of supercontinents

D Wang, JD Vervoort, CM Fisher, RS Lewis… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
We report new coupled zircon U-Pb age and Hf isotope data, along with whole-rock Hf-Nd
isotope data for 20 samples from the Priest River and Clearwater complexes—Neoarchean …

[HTML][HTML] Crustal evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Ubendian Belt (SW Tanzania) western margin: a Central African Shield amalgamation tale

A Ganbat, T Tsujimori, N Boniface, D Pastor-Galán… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ubendian Belt between the Archean Tanzania Craton and the Bangweulu
Block, represents a Paleoproterozoic orogeny of these two constituents of the Congo Craton …

Controls of basement fabric on the linkage of rift segments

E Heilman, F Kolawole, EA Atekwana, M Mayle - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Rukwa and North Malawi Rift Segments (RNMRS) both define a major rift‐
oblique segment of the East African Rift System and are often regarded as discrete rifts due …

Unraveling the western Churchill Province Paleoproterozoic gold metallotect: constraints from Re-Os arsenopyrite and U-Pb xenotime geochronology and LA-ICP-MS …

CJM Lawley, RA Creaser, SE Jackson… - Economic …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The gold endowment of the western Churchill Province is conventionally attributed to
reworking and attendant metamorphism during the Trans-Hudson Orogeny (1.9–1.8 Ga) …

Re-Os molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite geochronology, lupa goldfield, southwestern Tanzania: tracing metallogenic time scales at midcrustal shear zones hosting …

C Lawley, D Selby, J Imber - Economic Geology, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A detailed Re-Os molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite geochronology at five shear-hosted
Au occurrences (Kenge, Mbenge, Porcupine, Konokono, and Dubwana) in the Lupa …