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The Barberton greenstone belt (BGB) is located in the Kapvaal craton of southeastern Africa. It characterizes one of the most well-preserved and oldest...11 KB (1,433 words) - 20:48, 20 May 2024- The Barberton Greenstone Belt is situated on the eastern edge of the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa. It is known for its gold mineralisation and for its...16 KB (2,046 words) - 20:19, 17 June 2024
- (geology), the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two terranes; see Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone belt Amalgamation...2 KB (330 words) - 07:51, 15 April 2023
elements (REEs), which are pivotal for understanding their genesis and evolution. This enrichment in REEs, along with a moderate to high large-ion lithophile...31 KB (3,583 words) - 15:51, 25 August 2024
Lystrosaurus (category Prehistoric synapsids of Asia)helped support the hypothesis of plate tectonics and strengthen the theory, since Lystrosaurus had already been found in the lower Triassic of southern Africa...27 KB (2,860 words) - 08:29, 24 July 2024
The geology of South Africa is highly varied including cratons, greenstone belts, large impact craters as well as orogenic belts. The geology of the country...16 KB (1,777 words) - 09:09, 14 July 2024
Witwatersrand (category Landforms of Gauteng)intrusions known as komatiite, present in the greenstone belts. Apart from the obvious hollowing out of the rocks below southern Johannesburg, causing...39 KB (3,718 words) - 04:30, 5 August 2024- The Barberton Greenstone Belt of eastern South Africa contains some of the most widely accepted fossil evidence for Archean life. These cell-sized prokaryote...14 KB (1,748 words) - 06:04, 29 December 2023
The Cape Fold Belt is a fold and thrust belt of late Paleozoic age, which affected the sequence of sedimentary rock layers of the Cape Supergroup in the...42 KB (4,502 words) - 22:36, 2 May 2024
Mesosaurus (category Permian reptiles of Africa)Montevideoy. Trewick, Steve (2016). "Plate Tectonics in Biogeography". International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology....17 KB (1,851 words) - 04:24, 18 May 2024
Bushveld Igneous Complex (category Geology of South Africa)eroded forming the outcrops around what appears to be the edge of a great geological basin: the Transvaal Basin. It is approximately two billion years...55 KB (6,219 words) - 09:00, 14 August 2024
Kaapvaal Craton (category Geology of South Africa)through the belt. Some of the oldest exposed rocks on Earth (greater than 3.6 Ga) are located in the Barberton greenstone belt of the Eswatini–Barberton areas...10 KB (1,290 words) - 12:43, 17 June 2024
Archaeopteris (category Paleozoic life of Alberta)fed the streams and was a major factor in the evolution of freshwater fishes, whose numbers and varieties exploded in that time, and influenced the evolution...11 KB (1,213 words) - 19:21, 16 July 2024
Vaalbara (redirect from Vaalbara - the Earth's first supercontinent)J.; Drost, K. (2011). "Palaeomagnetism of Archaean rocks of the Onverwacht Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt (southern Africa): Evidence for a stable...21 KB (2,128 words) - 13:43, 17 June 2024
Karoo Supergroup (category Geologic formations of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)mountains to the south of the Cape Fold Belt. This new mountain range was comparable in size to the Himalayas. The northern slopes of these mountains generally...34 KB (3,502 words) - 00:04, 25 June 2024- Fig Tree Formation (category Geologic formations of South Africa)in the Barberton Greenstone Belt Warrawoona Group 2015 - Brown - Exploring the Evolution of Oxygen on the Early Earth: Constraining the Evolution of Oxidative...3 KB (178 words) - 02:00, 23 October 2023
Thrinaxodon (category Early Triassic synapsids of Africa)of convergent evolution. Lower incisors possess a very broad base, which is progressively reduced, heading distally towards the tip of the tooth. The...29 KB (3,709 words) - 09:19, 18 June 2024- Transvaal Supergroup (category Geologic formations of South Africa)Complex (2,050 Mya). It consists of three parts, the Transvaal Basin in the east the Griqualand Basin in the west the smaller Kanye Basin in southern Botswana...4 KB (309 words) - 23:28, 26 February 2021
Heterodontosaurus (category Early Jurassic dinosaurs of Africa)speculations on the diets of extinct reptiles". In Sues, H-D. (ed.). Evolution of herbivory in terrestrial vertebrates. Perspectives from the fossil record...63 KB (7,286 words) - 19:09, 22 August 2024
Coelophysis (category Late Triassic dinosaurs of North America)A. (2018). "The evolution of the manus of early theropod dinosaurs is characterized by high inter‐and intraspecific variation". Journal of Anatomy. 232...64 KB (6,931 words) - 21:51, 20 August 2024
- contain many of the same minerals. Collectively geologists might refer to these mafic metamorphic rocks as greenstone, or greenstone belts. These regions