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Zambezi Belt

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The Zambezi belt shows evidence of two large tectonothermal events, one between about 890-880 Ma and the other about 550-520 Ma. Both events reworked existing
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components, with small additions of younger material. The second event was caused by the collision of the Congo and Kalahari cratons during the assembly of the
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Hargrove, Ulysses S.; Hanson, Richard E.; Martin, Mark W.; Blenkinsop, Thomas G.; Bowring, Samuel A.; Walker, Nicholas; Munyanyiwa, Hubert (2003).
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forms the northern boundary of the Zambezi Belt, separating it from the Lufilian Arc. The
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also dates to the Pan-African orogeny. It allowed a change in the structural
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Area of mountain building now in southern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe
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Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Breakup
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Yoshida, Masaru; Windley, Brian F.; Dasgupta, Somnath (2003).
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Index

orogenic
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Congo Craton
Kalahari Craton
Lufilian Arc
Damaran Belt
Eastern African orogen
Archean
Mesoproterozoic
Gondwana
supercontinent
Neoproterozoic
Whiteschists
metabasalts
Pan-African orogeny
Mwembeshi Shear Zone
shear zone
vergence



Johnson & Oliver 2002
Hargrove et al. 2003
Mumbwa Geology
Yoshida, Windley & Dasgupta 2003
"Tectonic evolution of the Zambezi orogenic belt: geochronological, structural, and petrological constraints from northern Zimbabwe"
doi
10.1016/s0301-9268(03)00066-4
"High fO2 Metasomatism During Whiteschist Metamorphism, Zambezi Belt, Northern Zimbabwe"

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