Richard E. Hanson

TL;DR: The Namaqua-Natal Belt defines a major convergent plate boundary active at this time along the southern margin of the Archaean Kaapvaal Craton, and the western part of this belt is inferred to link with a largely buried, NE-trending orogen present in the Kalahari region as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Widespread intraplate magmatism during Rodinia assembly shows that mantle upwellings required to generate such provinces may occur independently of the supercontinent cycle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a model in which continent-continent collision and closure of the Adamastor ocean between the Amazon-West African-Rio de La Plata cratons and the Sao Francisco-Congo-Kalahari-Queen Maud Land block and East Gondwana in the late Neoproterozoic are linked to rifting and orthogonal spreading between Laurentia and the South American craton.

TL;DR: Pb baddeleyite crystallization ages of ~1927 and ~1879 to ~1872 Ma for dolerite sills intruding the Waterberg Group in Botswana and South Africa were reported in this article.

TL;DR: The Kalahari Craton was initially stabilized following cessation of Palaeoproterozoic orogenesis in southern Africa at ca. 1.4-1.8 Ga as discussed by the authors.