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Plagioclase from
Nondweni, uMzinyathi District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa


Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nondweni, uMzinyathi District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1210366
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1210366:5
GUID (UUID V4):d9546398-136c-4a9c-90cf-cb20c32e6f23
Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase
95.9km (59.6 miles) Klipwal mine, eMkhondo, Mkhondo Local Municipality, Gert Sibande District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
References
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BASALTS FROM THE NONDWENI GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTHEASTERN KAAPVAAL CRATON, SOUTH AFRICA L. SAHA School of...Geology), University of KwaZulu Natal, Private Bag X54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa e-mail: saha.lopamudra@gmail...PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: ahofmann@uj.ac.za N. JELE School of...Geology), University of KwaZulu Natal, Private Bag X54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa e-mail: jele.nkosinathi@gmail...Town, South Africa e-mail: chris.harris@uct.ac.za © 2012 September Geological Society of South Africa
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CRATON, SOUTH AFRICA N. HICKS Council for Geoscience. PO Box 900, Pietermaritzburg, 3200, South Africa e-mail:...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa Previous Address: Geology Division, School of...Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001 Durban 4000, South Africa e-mail: marlinae@uj...andersen@geo.uio.no © 2015 June Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT We report zircon ages and Hf isotopic...the southeast of Nkandla in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Ilangwe Granitoid/Gneiss Suite is
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Granitoids and greenstones of the White Mfolozi Inlier, south-east Kaapvaal Craton A. Hofmann Department of Geology... Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: ahofmann@uj.ac.za H. Xie Beijing SHRIMP...Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: christianr@fastmail.com © 2020 Geological Society of South Africa. All rights...and associated granitoid gneisses from an area south of Ulundi in KwaZuluNatal is described. The fragment...Swaziland in the north to the Natal Thrust Front in KwaZulu-Natal Province in the south (Figure 1; Brandl et al
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southeastern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa Hidehiko Morita Gra(duate School of Science...Pretoria, 0001, South Atrica grantham@ge0science.0rg.2a €> 2007 March Geological Society of South Afirica ABSTRACT...kyanite-bearing siliceoas rock.s belonging to tiie Nondweni Group in tiic Uangwe Greeastone BeU, along tiie...bounded to the soutii by the Mesoproterozoic Namaqua-Natal Belt (Figure 1). The IxHindary lietween these geological...geological provinces is exposed in northern Kwazulu-Natai along the Tugela Front, which has been shown
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A-type granite from the SE Kaapvaal craton, South Africa Saumitra Misra, Jürgen Reinhardt, Allan H....A-type granite from the SE Kaapvaal craton, South Africa, LITHOS (2017), doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.05...from the SE MA N US CR I Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa Discipline of Geological Sciences; School of... 2 3 AC CE University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban- 4000, South Africa. Department of Earth Sciences...University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa. School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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THE ARCHAEAN WHITE MFOLOZI INLIER, NORTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL J. REINHARDT Department of Earth Sciences, University...Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa e-mail: jreinhardt@uwc.ac.za M.A. ELBURG Department...Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa e-mail: marlinae@uj.ac.za T. ANDERSEN Department...2006, South Africa e-mail: tom.andersen@geo.uio.no © 2015 December Geological Society of South Africa...of the Kaapvaal Craton, the Barberton North and South terranes and coeval granitoids from Swaziland. The
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Aufs~itze SOUTH AFRICAN CODE OF STRATIGRAPHICTERMINOLOGY AND NOMENCLATURE Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Aft....THOMAS, C.M.: A short description of the geology of South Ngamiland (covering Quarter Degree Sheets 2622 C..., 1969 b. - - : Geological notes on the Chobe district. - - Unpubl. Rep. Geol. Surv. Botswana, 6 p.,...metamorphism in the northern part of the Natal-Namaquarides, South Africa By ANTHONYC. CAIN, Potgietersrus *)...umgestalteten regional metamorphen Gestein des Natal-NamaquaGiirtels n6rdlieh yon Durban sind die eharakteristisehen
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mafic/ultramafic volcanic associations of the Nondweni greenstone belt, South Africa, and constraints on their petrogenesis...Department of Geology, University of NataL P. Bag. XO1, Scottsville, South Africa, 3209 Received 3 October, 1993;...accepted 18 February, 1994 Abstract The 3.4 Ga Nondweni greenstone belt is situated near the southern...the mafic/ultramafic lithotypes distinguish the Nondweni greenstone belt from the Barberton and other Archaean...characteristics of the Nondweni lavas. 1. Introduction The early Archaean Nondweni greenstone belt, a poorly
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Craton, South Africa A.H. Wilson 1 and R.W. Carlson 2 i Department of Geology, University of Natal, P.O...O. 375, Pietermaritzburg 3200 (South Africa) e Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution...represent a 350 km transect through the craton south of Barberton to its southern margin. The Commondale...younger age of about 3.2 Ga is suggested for the Nondweni greenstone belt close to the southern margin of...irrespective of age, the individual lithologies of the Nondweni Sequence have isotopically distinct initial ratios
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The early Archaean Nondweni greenstone belt, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa, Part I. Stratigraphy...Geology, University of Natal, P.O. Box 375, 3200 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Received May 25, 1992;...version accepted October 5, 1993 Abstract The Nondweni greenstone belt is an exceptionally well preserved...near the southern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton. Nondweni Group rocks show both similarities and differences...north. In contrast with the latter, none of the Nondweni lavas exceed 23% MgO and spinifex textures are
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flows in the Archaean Nondweni greenstone belt, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa A.H. Wilson, J.A.... University of Natal, P.O. Box 375, Pietermaritzburg, 3200, Republic of South Africa Abstract. A well...ko- matiite flows is reported from the Archaean Nondweni greenstone belt located near the southern margin...specific thermal conditions prevailing in the Nondweni environment. The zones of bladed spinifex are...Corporation of South Africa Limited, P,O. Box 61587, Marshalltown, 2107, Republic of South Africa Offprint
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Archaean Geology of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa Regional Geology Reviews Series editors Roland... Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa François M. Roure, Rueil-Malmaison, France ...Archaean Geology of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa 123 Editors Alfred Kröner Institut für Geowissenschaften...Geology University of Johannesburg Auckland Park, South Africa ISSN 2364-6438 ISSN 2364-6446 (electronic)...continued interest. The Kaapvaal Craton of Southern Africa is featuring prominently in early Earth studies
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of the Pongola Supergroup (Central Region), South Africa Samuel B. Mukasa a,1 , Allan H. Wilson b,∗ ...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences...within the Zimbabwe and Kaapvaal Cratons of southern Africa, including the Pongola Supergroup (the subject...Craton (Fig. 1A) and extends as a broadly north–south trending linear belt over a distance of 250 km....Supergroup extends into northern Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, and southwestern Swaziland. In this area, mafic
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Geology University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa 6 7 * Corresponding author e-mail: aagangi@uj...Abstract 9 In the Kaapvaal craton of southern Africa, as well as other Archaean cratons worldwide, the...Introduction The eastern Kaapvaal craton of southern Africa contains one of the best preserved records of Palaeoarchaean...and Byerly, 2007) (Fig. 1). To the 45 south, the Nondweni Greenstone Belt (Wilson and Versfeld, 1994a;...2013). SC M AN U Felsic intrusive rocks of the south-eastern Kaapvaal craton are a record of multiple
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ROCKS OF THE MESOARCHAEAN PONGOLA SUPERGROUP IN SOUTH AFRICA AND SWAZILAND: DISTRIBUTION, PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: allan.wilson@wits.ac.za; bruce.groenewald@BAJV...Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050, South Africa © 2013 June Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT The Mesoarchaean...the eastern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa and Swaziland. It represents a volcanosedimentary...greenstone belts, such as observed in the Barberton and Nondweni greenstone belts, to late Archaean basin formation
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Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa Department of Geology, GeoBiosphere Centre,...region of the Kaapvaal Craton in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Hlagothi Complex consists of layered...activity in the nearby Meso- to Neoproterozoic Namaqua–Natal mobile belt. A short-lived (≤ 8 Ma) mantle plume...past. The Archaean crust of northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa forms part of the Kaapvaal Craton and...The ca. 3.6 to 3.1 Ga Kaapvaal Craton in southern Africa is one of the oldest, best preserved cratons in
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University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa e-mail: futhid@gmail.com, ahofmann@uj.ac.za...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa e-mail: Allan.Wilson@wits.ac.za A. Slabunov...karelia.ru © 2017 December Geological Society of South Africa Abstract This study represents the first detailed...plutons that cross-cut all Archaean rock types in SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 2017 • VOLUME 120.4 PAGE...eastern edge of the Kaapvaal Craton in southern Africa and contains one of the most diverse displays of
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deposit at Klipwal, southeastern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa Sakthi Saravanan Chinnasamy & Ron Uken & Jürgen...Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban 4000, South Africa e-mail: geosaks@gmail...Fluid inclusions . Klipwal . Kaapvaal Craton . South Africa Introduction Orogenic gold mineralization constitutes...Australia, Canada, Africa, India, and Brazil; the Proterozoic belts of West Africa; and, to a lesser extent...sediments, and Proterozoic continental crust. In South Africa, the Mesoarchaean volcano-sedimentary sequence
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com/locate/precamres The Nhlangano gneiss dome in south-west Swaziland – A record of crustal destabilization...University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa Beijing SHRIMP Centre, Chinese Academy of Geological...Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa b a r t i c l e i n f o Article...a b s t r a c t The Nhlangano granite-gneiss in south-west Swaziland, dated at 2.98 Ga, forms an elliptical...part of the Archaean Kaapvaal Craton in southern Africa consists of ancient (up to about 3.66 Ga old) crust
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stromatolitic carbonate rocks of the Pongola Supergroup, South Africa M. Siahi a,c,⇑, A. Hofmann b, E. Hegner a, S...Geology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa c Economic Geology Research Institute, School... University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...Campbellrand–Malmani subgroups of the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa (Beukes, 1987; Sumner and Grotzinger, 2004)...0 Ga Nsuze Group of the Pongola Supergroup, South Africa (Mason and Von Brunn, 1977; Beukes and Lowe
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intrusions within an obducted ophiolite in the Natal-Namaqua mobile belt H. V. Eales 1, A. H. Wilson...6140, South Africa 2 Department of Geology, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3200, South Africa Spinellids...Mine (Muir and Naldrett 1973) and the Red Lodge district (Loferski and Lipin 1983). Significant differences...differences between the spinels from the Red Lodge district compared to the other three occurrences may reflect...spinels of the Tugela Rand and Mambulu intrusions of Natal and sketches the position of the solvus between
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Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P/Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa Department of Geological...Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...greenstone belts in general (e.g. Nondweni greenstone belt in South Africa, Hofmann and Wilson, 2007; greenstone...Philips X’Unique XRFS at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (see Wilson, 2003, for operating conditions)...University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of KwaZulu-Natal by ICP-MS, using Perkin-Elmer ELAN 6000 and
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2050, South Africa Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa...Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Museum of Central Africa, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium b Received 11 April 2014;...University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.02.026...preserved supracrustal rocks can be found in South Africa, represented by the Pongola and Witwatersrand...was conducted in the White Mfolozi Inlier in KwaZulu-Natal in order to better constrain the environment
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Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa V.C. BENNETT Research School of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa (hofmann@ukzn.ac.za)...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa (kisters@sun.ac.za) T. KOMIYA Department of...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa (jfmoyen@wanadoo.fr) P.A. MUELLER Department...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa R.K. STEVENSON GÉOTOP-UQÀM-McGill and Département
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Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa V.C. BENNETT Research School of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa (hofmann@ukzn.ac.za)...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa (kisters@sun.ac.za) T. KOMIYA Department of...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa (jfmoyen@wanadoo.fr) P.A. MUELLER Department...Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 01, Matieland 7602, South Africa R.K. STEVENSON GÉOTOP-UQÀM-McGill and Département
 
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