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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of mafic sills in the 1.1 Ga Umkondo large igneous province, southern Africa

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The Mesoproterozoic Post-Waterberg sills A (MPWA sills) are characteristically LREE enriched with relatively unfractionated HREEs, and with normalised incompatible element profiles similar to modern island arc andesites as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Lithos.The article was published on 2012-06-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Large igneous province & Craton.

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Archaean and Proterozoic diamond growth from contrasting styles of large-scale magmatism.

TL;DR: It is shown that two suites of diamonds define two isochrons, showing the importance of dating individual inclusions, and that there was a major change in the magmatic processes responsible for harzburgitic diamond formation beneath Venetia from the Archaean to the Proterozoic.
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Neoarchean-Mesoproterozoic Mafic Dyke Swarms of the Indian Shield Mapped Using Google Earth™ Images and ArcGIS™, and Links with Large Igneous Provinces

TL;DR: In this paper, dyke swarm maps generated using Google Earth images, ArcGIS, field data, and available geochronological ages of Neoarchean-Mesoproterozoic (ranging in age from ~2.80 to ~1.10 Ga) mafic dyke swarms and associated magmatic units of the different Archean cratons of the Indian shield which represent the plumbing system of Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs).
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Geochronological evidence for an extension of the Northern Lobe of the Bushveld Complex, Limpopo Province, South Africa

TL;DR: In this paper, the first geochronological study of the ultramafic-mafic succession (the Waterberg Project) located in the Southern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt north of the Northern Lobe of the Bushveld Complex using U/Pb dating was conducted.
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Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalt : implications for mantle composition and processes

S. S. Sun
TL;DR: In this article, trace-element data for mid-ocean ridge basalts and ocean island basalts are used to formulate chemical systematics for oceanic basalts, interpreted in terms of partial-melting conditions, variations in residual mineralogy, involvement of subducted sediment, recycling of oceanic lithosphere and processes within the low velocity zone.

The continental crust: Its composition and evolution

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the composition of the present upper crust and deal with possible compositions for the total crust and the inferred composition of lower crust, and the question of the uniformity of crustal composition throughout geological time is discussed.
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Subcommission on geochronology: Convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology

TL;DR: The IUGS Subcommission on Geochronology (FOOTNOTE 4) as discussed by the authors recommended the adoption of a standard set of decay constants and isotopic abundances in isotope geology.
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A Guide to the Chemical Classification of the Common Volcanic Rocks

TL;DR: In this paper, a system was presented whereby volcanic rocks may be classified chemically as follows: Subalkaline Rocks:A.B. Tholeiitic basalt series:Tholeitic picrite-basalt; tholeiite, tholeitic andesite; dacite; rhyolite.
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