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- Boyle, P, et al.
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Need for global action for cancer control
- 2008
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Ingår i: Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology. - : Elsevier BV. - 1569-8041. ; 19:9, s. 1519-1521
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Cornell, David H., 1948, et al.
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Dwyka cobbles reveal Archean basement beneath the Kalahari sands.
- 2011
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Ingår i: 23rd Colloquium African Geology, University of Johannesburg, January 2011, Abstracts.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have found a new source of information about what lies beneath the Kalahari sands. The regions known as the Kheis and Rehoboth Provinces were thought to be underlain by either an ~1800 Ma orogenic belt, or a northern branch of the ~1200 Ma Namaqua-Natal Province, now largely covered by Cretaceous to Recent sand. Glacial diamictites of the Permian Dwyka Group exposed at Rietfontein west of the Kalahari carry cobbles plucked from the bedrock by the ice sheet which covered the Gondwana supercontinent about 300 Ma ago. Microbeam U-Pb zircon dating of the granitic cobbles shows that they contain no evidence of crustal growth or orogeny at either 1800 or 1200 Ma. Rather they testify to the presence of 2500 to 2900 Ma Archean crust beneath the Kalahari, with a lesser ~2050 Ma component, coeval with the Bushveld complex of the Kaapvaal Craton to the east. The mafic cobbles are much younger and are related to intrusions of the 1.1 Ga Umkondo Large Igneous Province along the Kalahari Line. Oxygen isotope analyses of zircon from the cobbles and western Kaapvaal Craton granites show a surprising difference, supporting the lithostratigraphic evidence that the granite cobbles do not originate from as far east as the Kaapvaal Craton. All the cobbles are most likely derived from either the Kalahari Line or the Rehoboth Province, whereas origins in the Kheis Province and Kaapvaal Craton are considered unlikely. The possible existence of Archean crust in the Rehoboth Province has important implications not only for the tectonic framework and assembly of Southern Africa, but also for exploration for diamonds and other ore deposits.
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- Cornell, David H., 1948, et al.
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Zircon dating reveals an Archaean crust beneath the Kalahari sand.
- 2008
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Ingår i: Annual Meeting Mineralogical Network, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, June 2008. ; abstracts
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Continents are subdivided into structural provinces based on the age of the last orogeny or major magmatic event which imprinted the structural fabric on the bedrock. These first-order subdivisions are important in understanding how the continents were assembled. The continuity and boundaries of provinces such as the Namaqua-Natal Province in Southern Africa have been established, however adjoining Kheis province which lies almost entirely under the Tertiary to Recent Kalahari sands, has thus far defied attempts to understand its age and geological history. A foreland thrust complex developed in 1.92 Ga redbeds at Olifantshoek (Fig. 1a) was postulated by Cornell et al. 1998. However the much younger 1.2 Ga to 1.1 Ga Sinclair Sequence volcanic and plutonic rocks exposed in the same area suggest that the Kheis Province could have experienced an Andean-type orogeny at ~1.2 Ga. Thus Moen (1999) suggested that much of the Kheis Province was coeval with and belonged to the ~1.2 Ga Namaqua-Natal Province. At Rietfontein on the eastern margin of the Kheis, tillites of the Permian Dwyka Group, were found to contain abundant cobble-sized clasts of crystalline bedrock. Bearing in mind the generally westward transport directions for the Dwyka Ice sheet (Fig. 1a), these exposures were investigated to see if they contained information about what lies under the Kalahari. These granotoid cobbles are badly weathered, but we succeeded in dating them using an ion probe and laser ablation ICPMS, by the U-Pb method. The data is largely discordant, reflecting ancient lead loss at the time of glaciation. Nevertheless we find compelling evidence that Archean and 2.0 Ga (Bushveld Complex age) granitic crust exists beneath the Kalahari. We also failed to find any evidence for the existence of younger granitic crust or high-grade metamorphic terranes. The published concepts of the Kheis Province as either a 1900 - 1750 Ma collisional orogen, or an extension of the 1200 Ma Namaqua Province find no support in our data. The possibility of Archean and Bushveld-aged rocks occuring as basement beneath the Kalahari has important implications for diamond, base and precious metal prospecting in the western Kalahari in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. These possibilities should be tested by drilling with geophysical control, the last such campaign having been completed in Botswana in 1984.
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