The stratigraphy of the 3.5-3.2 Ga Barberton Greenstone Belt revisited: A single zircon ion microprobe study

Earth and Planetary Science Letters - Tập 101 Số 1 - Trang 90-106 - 1990
Richard Armstrong1,2,3, W. Compston3, Maarten J. de Wit1, Ian S. Williams3
1Bernard Price Institute for Geophysical Research, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Wits, 2050, South Africa
2Department of Geochemistry and Department of Geology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, Cape Town, South Africa
3Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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