The Pampean orogeny of northern Argentina resulted from Early Cambrian oblique collision
of the Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic MARA block, formerly attached to Laurentia, with …

A provenance study involving U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope analyses of detrital zircon grains as
well as whole rock geochemical, Rb–Sr, Sm–Nd and Pb isotope analyses of siliciclastic …

Abstract The Sea Point intrusive contact on the Atlantic coast, South Africa, is a site of
historical significance that continues to be useful for studying the details of granite–wall rock …

The western Saldania belt in South Africa exposes a section through a fore-arc region that
records deformation, sedimentation and plutonism in the late Neoproterozoic and Cambrian …

Ophiolitic sequences are widely recorded from Meso-Cenozoic orogenic belts, but are only
rarely documented from Proterozoic-Paleozoic orogens, so that the geodynamic processes …

Abstract A zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb concordia age of 554.5±5.4 Ma (2σ) from a felsic tuff of
the Bloubergstrand Member (Tygerberg Formation) in the Pan-African Saldania Belt of the …

Abstract The western Saldania Belt records the closure of the Adamastor Ocean and
amalgamation of southwest Gondwana in the latest Neoproterozoic and early Phanerozoic …

Abstract The Bloubergstrand Member, consisting of mafic to intermediate tuffs and flows
within the Tygerberg Formation of the Malmesbury Group, is a crucial but understudied …

Abstract The newly described Sperrgebiet Domain is a part of the Palaeo-to
Mesoproterozoic Namaqua–Natal Province that is exposed as a basement inlier within the …

The mafic to felsic rocks at Yzerfontein form part of a composite 535 Ma post-orogenic pluton
belonging to the Cape Granite Suite (CGS) of the Pan-African Saldania Belt of southwestern …