Generation and age of early Archaean greenstone belt remnants in the southeastern Kaapvaal craton of South Africa

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, Ph.D., since 7/2019
• Subject Area: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
• Term: from 2017 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 381206246

• Final Report Year: 2022

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Publications

• High-temperature metamorphism and crustal melting at ca. 3.2 Ga in the eastern Kaapvaal craton, southern Africa. Precambrian Research, 317, 101-116.
  Kröner, A.; Nagel, T.J.; Hoffmann, J.E.; Liu, X.; Wong, J.; Hegner, E.; Xie, H.; Kasper, U.; Hofmann, A. & Liu, D.
  
• Archaean Crystalline Rocks of the Eastern Kaapvaal Craton. Regional Geology Reviews, 1-32. Springer International Publishing.
  Kröner, Alfred; Hoffmann, J. Elis; Wong, Jean M.; Geng, Hong-Yan; Schneider, Kathrin P.; Xie, Hangqiang; Yang, Jin-Hui & Nhleko, Noah
  
• Archaean Granitoid–Greenstone Geology of the Southeastern Part of the Kaapvaal Craton. Regional Geology Reviews, 33-54. Springer International Publishing.
  Hofmann, Axel; Anhaeusser, Carl R.; Dixon, John; Kröner, Alfred; Saha, Lopamudra; Wilson, Allan & Xie, Hangqiang
  
• Granitoids and Greenstone Belts of the Pietersburg Block—Witnesses of an Archaean Accretionary Orogen Along the Northern Edge of the Kaapvaal Craton. Regional Geology Reviews, 83-107. Springer International Publishing.
  Laurent, Oscar; Zeh, Armin; Brandl, Günther; Vezinet, Adrien & Wilson, Allan
  
• Mesoarchaean Gold Mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt: A Review. Regional Geology Reviews, 171-184. Springer International Publishing.
  Agangi, Andrea; Hofmann, Axel; Eickmann, Benjamin & Marin-Carbonne, Johanna
  
• The Archaean Geology of the Kaapvaal Craton, Southern Africa. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer International Publishing.
  Kröner, A. & Hofmann, A. (Eds.)
  
• Extensive magmatism and metamorphism at ca. 3.2 Ga in the eastern Kaapvaal Craton. Precambrian Research, 351, 105952.
  Wang, Hao; Yang, Jin-Hui; Kröner, Alfred; Zhu, Yu-Sheng; Wei, Qin-Di; Li, Rui & Xu, Lei
  
• Hafnium-Neodymium isotope, trace element and U-Pb zircon age constraints on the petrogenesis of the 3.44–3.46 Ga Dwalile greenstone remnant, Ancient gneiss Complex, Swaziland. Precambrian Research, 351, 105970.
  Hoffmann, J. Elis; Musese, Emmanuel; Kröner, Alfred; Schneider, Kathrin P.; Wong, Jean; Hofmann, Axel; Hegner, Ernst; Kasper, Haino Uwe; Tusch, Jonas & Münker, Carsten
  
• Sequential leaching of silicified Archaean carbonates: A Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Pb-Pb isotopic contribution to their tectonic-thermal history (Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa). Precambrian Research, 365, 106393.
  Toulkeridis, Theofilos; Clauer, Norbert; Uysal, I. Tonguç & Kröner, Alfred
  
• The onset of deep recycling of supracrustal materials at the Paleo-Mesoarchean boundary. National Science Review, 9(3).
  Wang, Xiaolei; Tang, Ming; Moyen, Jeff; Wang, Di; Kröner, Alfred; Hawkesworth, Chris; Xia, Xiaoping; Xie, Hangqiang; Anhaeusser, Carl; Hofmann, Axel; Li, Junyong & Li, Linsen
  
• A Mesoarchean Large Igneous Province on the Eastern Kaapvaal Craton (Southern Africa) Confirmed by Metavolcanic Rocks from Kubuta, Eswatini. Lithosphere, 2022(Special 8).
  Schneider, K. P.; Hoffmann, J. E.; Kröner, A.; Balduin, A.; Sprung, P.; Schleicher, A. M. & Münker, C.