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The Junction Between the Mozambique and Zambesi Orogenic Belts; North-east Southern Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. L. Johnson  and
J. R. Vail
R. L. Johnson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mineral Resources, Regina, Saskatchewan.
J. R. Vail
Affiliation:
Research Institute of African Geology, The University of Leeds.
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Abstract

Reconnaissance work carried out in north-east Southern Rhodesia has shown that the Umkondo System, previously known in the Mozambique Belt, extends into the Zambesi Belt. It is further demonstrated that the two belts were broadly continuous in structure and metamorphism during the important orogeny c. 500 m·y. The possibility that the mobile belts were active considerably earlier than 500 m·y. is discussed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 102 , Issue 6 , December 1965 , pp. 489 - 495
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1965

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