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Origin and Evolution of Precambrian High-Grade Gneiss Terranes, with Special Emphasis on the Limpopo Complex of Southern Africa

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Origin and Evolution of Precambrian High-Grade Gneiss Terranes, with Special Emphasis on the Limpopo Complex of Southern Africa

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Geological Society of America

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207

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1130/MEM207

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© 2011 Geological Society of America

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9780813712079

Publication date:

February 01, 2011

Book Chapter

Granite emplacement and the retrograde P-T-fluid evolution of Neoarchean granulites from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex

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Jan-Marten Huizenga

Jan-Marten Huizenga

Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa

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Leonid L. Perchuk

Leonid L. Perchuk

Department of Petrology, Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119192, Russia; Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, 142432, Russia; and Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Dirk D. van Reenen

Dirk D. van Reenen

Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa

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Yvonne Flattery

Yvonne Flattery

Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa

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Dimitri A. Varlamov

Dimitri A. Varlamov

Department of Petrology, Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia

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C. André Smit

Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa

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Taras V. Gerya

Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland, and Adjunct Professor of Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia

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Doi:

https://doi.org/10.1130/2011.1207(08)

Published:

February 01, 2011

Petrological and fluid-inclusion data of high-grade metapelitic gneisses that occur as enclaves and in the immediate surroundings of the 2.612 Ga old Bulai granitoid intrusive are presented in this chapter. The Bulai intrusive is an important time marker in the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex. The host-rock gneisses show one generation of garnet, cordierite, and sillimanite, whereas the enclave gneisses show two different generations of garnet (Grt_1,2), cordierite (Crd_1,2), and sillimanite (Sil_1,2). The first generation defines a gneissic texture, whereas the second generation shows a random mineral orientation. Grt...

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