[HTML][HTML] Layered intrusions: Fundamentals, novel observations and concepts, and controversial issues

RM Latypov, O Namur, Y Bai, SJ Barnes… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Layered intrusions are fossilized natural laboratories that historically have constrained many
fundamental principles of igneous petrology. Layered intrusions are typically stratiform …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in MC-ICP-MS applications in Earth and environmental sciences: Challenges and solutions

V Balaram, W Rahaman, P Roy - Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-
MS) in 1992 opened up new opportunities for geochemical, mineral exploration, and …

The Bushveld Complex was emplaced and cooled in less than one million years–results of zirconology, and geotectonic implications

A Zeh, M Ovtcharova, AH Wilson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rustenburg Layered Suite (RLS) of the Bushveld Complex (BC) represents
Earth's oldest large igneous province (> 370 000 km 3), and contains the world's largest …

Reassessing the uranium decay constants for geochronology using ID-TIMS U–Pb data

B Schoene, JL Crowley, DJ Condon… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2006 - Elsevier
As the internal precision of radiometric dates approaches the 0.1% level, systematic biases
between different methods have become apparent. Many workers have suggested that …

Large igneous provinces (LIPs) and carbonatites

RE Ernst, K Bell - Mineralogy and Petrology, 2010 - Springer
There is increasing evidence that many carbonatites are linked both spatially and temporally
with large igneous provinces (LIPs), ie high volume, short duration, intraplate-type …

The Bushveld Complex, South Africa: formation of platinum–palladium, chrome-and vanadium-rich layers via hydrodynamic sorting of a mobilized cumulate slurry in a …

WD Maier, SJ Barnes, DI Groves - Mineralium Deposita, 2013 - Springer
Platinum-group element (PGE) deposits in the Bushveld Complex and other layered
intrusions form when large, incompletely solidified magma chambers undergo central …

U–Pb geochronology documents out-of-sequence emplacement of ultramafic layers in the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa

JE Mungall, SL Kamo, S McQuade - Nature Communications, 2016 - nature.com
Layered intrusions represent part of the plumbing systems that deliver vast quantities of
magma through the Earth's crust during the formation of large igneous provinces, which …

Archaean to Proterozoic crustal evolution in the central zone of the Limpopo Belt (South Africa–Botswana): constraints from combined U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope …

A Zeh, A Gerdes, R Klemd, JM Barton Jr - Journal of Petrology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
A combined set of U–Pb and Lu–Hf in sit u laser ablation ICP-(MC)-MS zircon analyses were
obtained from orthogneisses and granitoids in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, which …

Precise age of the platiniferous Merensky Reef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa, by the U-Pb zircon chemical abrasion ID-TIMS technique

JS Scoates, RM Friedman - Economic Geology, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Bushveld Complex, South Africa, is the world's largest layered intrusion and
host to the majority of the known resources of platinum group elements, chromium, and …

Dating the Bushveld Complex: timing of crystallization, duration of magmatism, and cooling of the world's largest layered intrusion and related rocks

JS Scoates, CJ Wall, RM Friedman, D Weis… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Bushveld Complex, including the world's largest layered
intrusion and host to world-class stratiform chromium, platinum group element, and …