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Sillimanite from
Magondi belt, Karoi District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe


Locality type:Belt
Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Magondi belt, Karoi District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1241206
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1241206:8
GUID (UUID V4):a9e0e60b-c2dd-47b5-9586-dac3add30109
References
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Netherlands THE GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE MAGONDI MOBILE BELT, ZIMBABWE P E T E R J. TRELOAR Department of Geology...evolution of the Magondi Mobile Belt, Zimbabwe. Precambrian Res., 38: 55-73. The Zimbabwe Archaean craton...is flanked to the NW by the Magondi Mobile Belt. Within this belt, Magondi Supergroup volcanics and sediments...ago. In the south, the belt is a typical thin-skinned thrust belt with Magondi Supergroup rocks thrust...Archaean craton. Northwards, the character of the belt changes with the structural style changing to a
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geological setting of the Palaeoproterozoic Magondi Supergroup, Zimbabwe – Type locality for the Lomagundi carbon...anomaly Palaeoproterozoic Magondi a b s t r a c t The Palaeoproterozoic Magondi Supergroup lies unconformably...the Archaean granitoid-greenstone terrain of the Zimbabwe Craton and experienced deformation and metamorphism...metamorphism at 2.06–1.96 Ga to form the Magondi Mobile Belt. The Magondi Supergroup comprises three lithostratigraphic...deeper-water shelf to continental slope deposits in the west (Piriwiri Group). Based on the upward-coarsening
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and Migmatitic Granulites from the Magondi Mobile Belt, Zimbabwe PETER J. TRELOAR Department o[ Geology...Geology, University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare (Zimbabwe) (Received March 1, 1988;...from the Magondi Mobile Belt, Zimbabwe. Precambrian Res., 45: 277-289. The Magondi Mobile Belt, which crops...crops out to the west of the Zimbabwe Archaean craton, is an early- to midProterozoic feature within...within which sediments of the Magondi Supergroup were deformed and metamorphosed. Metamorphic grade increases
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1 3 - 7 1 8 Werdingite from the Urungwe District, Zimbabwe Department of Geological Sciences, University...Proterozoic Magondi belt in the Urungwe District, 60 km westnorth-west of Karoi, northern Zimbabwe. The geologic...details on the werdingite occurrence in the Urungwe District. Geologic situation and mineralogy of the werdingite-bearing...sequence of enderbite and cordierite-garnet-biotite-sillimanite-bearing paragneisses; a spinel-rich contact zone...zircon, corundum, 714 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS sillimanite, biotite, and werdingite are present in traces
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evolution of enderbites within the Magondi Mobile Belt, northern Zimbabwe H. Munyanyiwa a, J.L.R. T o u r...Geology, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP16 7, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe blnstitute of Earth Sciences...evolution ofenderbites within the Magondi Mobile Belt, northern Zimbabwe. Lithos, 29:163-176. Metamorphic...argillaceous supracrustal rocks of the Magondi Mobile Belt (Zimbabwe) range from greenschist to granulite...practically u n k n o w n granulite terrain in Zimbabwe. The integrated study enables a pre- 0024-4937/93/$06
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Geological Society of Zimbabwe G Z S Newsletter October 2015 No. 3 of 3 of 2015 Heavy mineral concentrate...Society of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1719, Causeway, Harare Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ... ARTICLES AND REPORTS A Review of Diamonds in Zimbabwe – a Century On .................................11 12 NEWS Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe – Maideyi Meck ……………… The Professor Tom Blenkinsop... ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 2 Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter October, 2015 Editorial Welcome to
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lenses in the Eastern Ghats Belt at Venugopalapuram, Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh, India: do...granulite-facies quartz-sillimanite-hypersthene-cordierite gneisses of the Eastern Ghats belt, Andhra Pradesh...Hemo-ilmenite, sapphirine, magnetite, biotite and sillimanite are subordinate. Lithium, Be and B are concentrated...WORDS : prismatine, ferrohögbomite, Eastern Ghats Belt, India, Namaqualand, South Africa. Introduction...Vizianagaram (Vijayanagaram) district, an area in the Eastern Ghats Belt, attracted our interest. However
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Zambia: exotic terrane or a reworked segment of the Zimbabwe Craton? Sarah M. Glynn, Sharad Master, Michael...Zambia: exotic terrane or a reworked segment of the Zimbabwe Craton?, Precambrian Research (2017), doi: http://dx...exotic terrane or a reworked 2 segment of the Zimbabwe Craton? 3 4 Sarah M. Glynn*, a, b, Sharad Mastera...the neighbouring Palaeoproterozoic Magondi Belt and Archaean Zimbabwe 29 Craton. This study of the Choma-Kalomo...Dete-Kamativi Inlier (which is 36 part of the Magondi Belt) indicates that Sn-(Ta-Nb-W-Li-Be) mineralisation
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granite-greenstone terrane at the south-western margin of the Zimbabwe craton, is interpreted as a continental-margin...similar material in the Central Zone of the Limpopo belt to the east. The Matsitama-Motloutse Complex was...which is part of the Central Zone to the Limpopo belt. The Mahalapye Complex is the fourth terrane and...north, the Kaapvaal craton, the Limpopo belt and the Zimbabwe craton (Figure 1). Within Botswana, outcrop...restricted to the area south of a prominent east-west structure referred to as the Zoetfontein Fault (Figure
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structural block between the Archaean Kaapvaal-Zimbabwe Craton and the Late Proterozoic Damara orogen...epicratonic sediments allied to the Magondi Supergroup of Zimbabwe or to the Olifantshoek Sequence of...(Damaran) orogenicbelt, 4 = "Eburnian-aged" fold-belt, 5 = Archaean craton. P= Passarge Basin, N - N =...the G h a n z i - C h o b e belt (part of the D a m a r a orogenic belt) (Fig. 1 ). Aeromagnetic lineaments...gneisses and associated lithologies in the centre and west of the inlier were named the "Okwa Gneiss" by Key
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USA c British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, UK d Geological Survey...magmatism superimposed on the buried Mesoproterozoic belt. Previously published geochronological data and...continuation of the Neoproterozoic–Lower Paleozoic Damara belt exposed in Namibia. Limited outcrops of 2.05 Ga...granite in the subsurface extension of the Damara belt has a protolith crystallization age of 0.72 Ga....Kalahari region of Botswana and adjacent parts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Namibia, and South Africa (Fig
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Geological Society of Zimbabwe G Z S Newsletter February 2014 The Victoria Falls Summer Symposium...Society of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1719, Causeway, Harare Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ...Talk summaries - Victoria Falls Summer Symposium, Zimbabwe, November 2013 .................................... 15 NEWS Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe ……………………………….. Geological Survey Department ………………………………………………...debeer@cadline.co.zw 2 Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter February, 2014 Editorial This Newsletter
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thrusting along the northeastern margin of the Zimbabwe craton Axel Hofmann School of Geosciences, University...Department of Geology, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP 167, Harare, Zimbabwe e-mail: hofmannaxel@hotmail.com...Chirwa dome in northeast Zimbabwe is situated at the boundary between the Zimbabwe craton and Archaean gneisses...gneisses of the Zambezi mobile belt. This circular granite intrusion has long been regarded as Archaean...juxtaposed against a greenstone terrain of the Zimbabwe craton. This active thrust stack was intruded
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Accepted Manuscript The Grenvillian Namaqua Fold Belt adjacent to the western Kaapvaal Craton: 2. Archaean...E. Schoch, J. Cole, The Grenvillian Namaqua Fold Belt adjacent to the western Kaapvaal Craton: 2. Archaean...journal pertain. The Grenvillian Namaqua Fold Belt adjacent to the western Kaapvaal Craton: 2. Archaean...(Kheis Subprovince) form a thin-skin fold and thrust belt (515 km depth to sole thrust). Westerly directed...amphibolite Upington Terrane was thrusted from the west onto thrust sheets contiguous to Kaapvaal Craton
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evolution of mafic rocks in the Tugela Terrane, Natal Belt, South Africa A. Bisnath Council for Geoscience...Tugela Terrane within the Mesoproterozoic Natal Belt in KwaZulu-Natal (eastern South Africa). Three metamorphic...tectono-thermal and geodynamic model for the Natal Belt. Introduction KwaZulu-Natal in eastern South Africa...Africa contains a Mesoproterozoic orogenic belt that provides useful information for the understanding...Mesoproterozoic at c. 1.2 to 1.0 Ga. The Mesoproterozoic Natal Belt of southern Africa lies adjacent to the southeastern
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Bushveld intrusion and the final assembly of the Zimbabwe and Kaapvaal Cratons, respectively; discordant...is minor throughout the tropical belt from South Africa and Zimbabwe to Namibia and coastal Angola but...equator and subhumid east coast to the hyperarid west coast. Major rivers are sourced in relatively wet...Africa includes the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe Cratons, joined by the Limpopo Belt and bounded by the discontinuously...Paleoproterozoic Magondi-Okwa-Kheis Belt in the west and by the Mesoproterozoic Namaqua–Natal Belt in the south
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Mesoproterozoic UHT metamorphism in the Southern Irumide Belt, Chipata, Zambia: Petrology and in situ monazite...online 25 January 2016 Keywords: Southern Irumide Belt Chipata Mesoproterozoic UHT metamorphism Spinel–quartz...Irumide Belt sensu lato of eastern Zambia situated between the Bangweulu Block and the Zimbabwe Craton...geodynamic causes of the metamorphism in this particular belt have not been studied. Here we report the results...from the Chipata Terrane of the Southern Irumide Belt (SIB), which revealed a single stage high to ultra-high
Report (chapter)
sulfosalts    Metamorphic minerals Kyanite, sillimanite, cordierite, chloritoid, jadeite, staurolite...2014). For example, data from the Zambian copper belt and similar deposits in Australia point to significant...Swanson (2012) gave ~0 Ma in the tin­-spodumene belt along the North Carolina-South Carolina border....relationship to the older events in the Grenville belt analogous to that of far-field rifting in the Oslo...are located in the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji belt, which lies at the eastern margin of the Eastern
Report (volume)
E-mail bookstore@aapg.org India Affiliated East-West Press PVT Ltd G-l/16 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New...Correlation: a perspective from the Eastern Ghats Granulite Belt, India DOBMEIER, C. J. & RAITH, M. M. Crustal architecture...architecture and evolution of the Eastern Ghats Belt and adjacent regions of India BRAUN, I. & KRIEGSMAN... M. A review of the evolution of the Mozambique Belt and implications for the amalgamation and dispersal...component of this long-lived subsupercontinent. West Gondwana, on the other hand, assembled during the
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e gneisses from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa Ian S. Buick a,*, Jörg Hermann b...October 2005 Abstract The Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa) underwent high-grade metamorphism...LA-ICP-MS; REE; Alteration; Metamorphism; Limpopo Belt 1. Introduction * Corresponding author. Tel.:...timing of high-grade (poly)metamorphism. The Limpopo Belt of southern Africa (Fig. 1) is a terrain where the...the Limpopo Belt and surrounding cratons; b) simplified geological map of the Limpopo Belt and adjacent
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those from the Newlands kimberlite of the Barkly West cluster (Kimberley region), and the Lace, Voorspoed...Orapa kimberlite in the buried extension of the Magondi belt of north-central Botswana, north of the Kaapvaal...boundary of the Kaapvaal craton with the Natal orogenic belt; and the Markt, Lovedale, Klipfontein-08, Beyersfontein...southwestern boundary with the Namaqualand orogenic belt. The Group 2 (ca. 114 Ma; Smith et al. 1985) Newlands...ultrahigh-temperature (UHT), garnet + quartz + sapphirine + sillimanite ± plagioclase + rutile granulites, which have
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Sahara (under Moroccan administration) Zambia Zimbabwe 142 146 148 152 156 160 162 168 172 176 180 186...Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Negative economic impacts that resulted from...also felt by Angola, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The long-term implication of the AIDS epidemic...hence resulting definition of the Mozambique Orogenic Belt Fig. 5 Orogenic belts in southern and central Africa...Orogenic Belt to be approximately 1,300 Ma old, an age today indicative for the Kibaran Orogenic Belt, but
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sediments of the Ediacaran Rocha Formation (Dom Felicano Belt) at the Atlantic coast of Uruguay. These metasediments...the counterpart of the Oranjemund Group (Gariep Belt) cropping out in the western borders of Namibia...correlated them with comparable deposits in the Cape Fold Belt (Keidel 1914, 1916, 1938). Motivated by Keidel’s...Gariep belts of southern Africa with the Ribeira Belt of South America, and to interpret their evolution...Sierras Australes de Buenos Aires and the Cape Fold Belt (black lines). Handwritten notes made by Alfred
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Granulite Block References Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt 2.3.1 Introduction 2.3.2 Sileru shear zone 2.3.3...References Further reading Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic Belt 2.5.1 Introduction 2.5.2 South Delhi Terrane 2.5...References Introduction The Limpopo Belt The Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt The Mahalapye Complex 4.4.1 The...Introduction The Sør Rondane Mountains The Maud Belt The Muhlig-Hofmannfjella mountains The Lützow-Holm...Western Australia and some parts of the Limpopo Belt. We thank profusely the Geological Survey and Resource
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conducted on marine carbonates of the Lomagundi Group, Zimbabwe, which were deposited approximately in the 2.40–2...predominantly dolomitic, and lays in the San José Belt (Bossi et al., 1993, 1998; Bossi and Cingolani,...city (Frisicale et al., 1999), and a 25-km-long belt located south of Tandil city (Dalla Salda, 1981)...varieties of these gneisses comprise muscovite and sillimanite (Dalla Salda et al., 2005). These rocks exhibit...zircons from the Buenos Aires complex of the Tandilia belt, Río de la Plata Craton, Argentina. 15° Congreso
 
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