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P-T Conditions of Metamorphism in the Wami River Granulite Complex, Central Coastal Tanzania: Implications for Pan-African Geotectonics in the Mozambique Belt of Eastern Africa

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dc.creator Maboko, Makenya A. H.
dc.date 2016-05-11T14:05:31Z
dc.date 2016-05-11T14:05:31Z
dc.date 1997
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:56:57Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:56:57Z
dc.identifier Maboko, M.A.H., 1997. P T conditions of metamorphism in the Wami River granulite complex, central coastal Tanzania: implications for Pan-African geotectonics in the Mozambique Belt of eastern Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 24(1), pp.51-64.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1945
dc.identifier 10.1016/S0899-5362(97)00026-2
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1945
dc.description Full text can be accessed at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536297000262
dc.description Solid-solution equilibria for gamet-clinopyroxene pairs in the early Pan-African Wami River granulite complex of central coastal Tanzania indicate metamorphic recrystallization at a temperature of about 700°C and a pressure of 8–9 kb, corresponding to metamorphism at a depth of 30–40 km. This suggests that granulite formation was preceded by an anomalous regional crustal thickening, similar to the crustal doubling that accompanies Phanerozoic continent-continent collisions of the Himalaya type. The analogy prompts the interpretation of the Wami River granulite complex, and possibly the rest of the granulite complexes in the Mozambique Belt, as slices of the underthrusted plate, which were accreted to the present day African plate following a continent-continent collision during early Pan-African time.
dc.language en
dc.title P-T Conditions of Metamorphism in the Wami River Granulite Complex, Central Coastal Tanzania: Implications for Pan-African Geotectonics in the Mozambique Belt of Eastern Africa
dc.type Journal Article


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