The Jamestown Ophiolite Complex, Barberton mountain belt: a section through 3.5 Ga oceanic crust

Keywords

Geology, Ophiolite, Geochemistry, Igneous rock, Archean

References

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• Early Archean processes: evidence from the South African Kaapvaal craton and its greenstone belts (extended abstract)Maarten J. de Wit — 1997
• Oceanic Pillow Lavas and Hyaloclastites as Habitats for Microbial Life Through Time – A ReviewHarald Furnes, Nicola McLoughlin, Karlis Muehlenbachs — 2008
• Les changements géodynamiques à la transition Archéen-Protérozoïque : étude des granitoïdes de la marge Nord du craton du Kaapvaal (Afrique du Sud)Oscar Laurent — 2012
• Early Precambrian Earth history: Plate and plume tectonics and extraterrestrial controlsN. L. Dobretsov, О. М. Turkina — 2015
• Petrology and geochemistry of high degree mantle meltsS. W. Parman — 2001
• Early Archaean crustal evolution: evidence from ~3.5million year old greenstone successions in the Pilgangoora Belt, Pilbara Craton, AustraliaMichael Godfrey Green — 2001
• Geodynamic evolution of the West and Central Pilbara Craton in Western Australia : a mid-Archaean active continental marginK.A. Beintema — 2003
• Mesoarchean assembly and stabilization of the eastern Kaapvaal craton: A structural‐thermochronological perspectiveBlair Schoene, Maarten J. de Wit, Samuel A. Bowring — 2008
• Volcanic evolution of oceanic crust in a Late Ordovician back‐arc basin: The Solund‐Stavfjord Ophiolite Complex, West NorwayHarald Furnes, Helge Hellevang, B. Hellevang — 2003
• Geology of the Eoarchean, > 3.95 Ga, Nulliak supracrustal rocks in the Saglek Block, northern Labrador, Canada: The oldest geological evidence for plate tectonicsTsuyoshi Komiya, Shinji Yamamoto, Shogo Aoki — 2015
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• Depth and degree of melting of komatiitesClaude Herzberg — 1992
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• Formation of an Archaean continentMaarten J. de Wit, Cornel E.J. de Ronde, M. Tredoux — 1992

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