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By Sunday W. Petters
This balanced and accomplished review of geology, tectonics, and mineral assets of Africa provides multifarious points of Archean to Quaternary geology, together with points of plate tectonics evolution and geological historical past of the Earth's oldest continent. Assembled info on igneous and metamorphic petrology, geochemistry, buildings and tectonics, stratigraphy, ancient geology, geomorphology, geophysics, mineral deposits and petroleum geology supply a different textbook for teachers, scholars and researchers within the named fields.
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Of toThe ab- sence of intermediate rocks in the Bimodal Gneiss Suite rules out its derivation from the fractionation of basaltic parent magmas. , 1982). later by the gneisses (Tankard 28 The Barberton Of the Greenstone Belt six greenstone Barberton belts in the Kaapvaal berton belt extends as a wedge-shaped tween the Drakensberg escarpment east. The greenstones Supergroup. This predominantly by a into minor group shale the of interbeds. 5). in the west and the Lebombo Range in the consists sequence another greenschist dimentary of ultramafic cyclical upward province belt is the largest and the best preserved passes quartzites metamorphism, have retained upward which only to with lower their original of which their paleoenvironments se- have been p r e c i s e l y determined.