Crustal structure beneath southern Africa and its implications for the formation and evolution of the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons

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Jul 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.2501n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 13, p. 2501-2504

Physics

46

Seismology: Continental Crust, Tectonophysics: Evolution Of The Earth

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The formation of Archean crust appears to involve processes unique to early earth history. Initial results from receiver function analysis of crustal structure beneath 81 broadband stations deployed across southern Africa reveal significant differences in the nature of the crust and the crust-mantle boundary between Archean and post-Archean geologic terranes. With the notable exception of the collisional Limpopo belt, where the crust is thick and the Moho complex, the crust beneath undisturbed Archean craton is typically thin (~35-40 km), unlayered, and characterized by a strong velocity contrast across a relatively sharp Moho. This crustal structure contrasts markedly with that beneath post-Archean terranes and beneath Archean regions affected by large-scale Proterozoic events (the Bushveld complex and the Okwa/Magondi belts), where the crust tends to be relatively thick (~45-50 km) and the Moho is complex.

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