[HTML][HTML] Sources of bias in detrital zircon geochronology: Discordance, concealed lead loss and common lead correction

T Andersen, MA Elburg, BN Magwaza - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The distribution pattern of U-Pb ages of detrital zircon in a sedimentary rock is commonly
assumed to reflect the ages of igneous or metamorphic processes in rocks that have …

[HTML][HTML] Impact structures in Africa: A review

WU Reimold, C Koeberl - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
More than 50 years of space and planetary exploration and concomitant studies of terrestrial
impact structures have demonstrated that impact cratering has been a fundamental process …

Detrital zircon in an active sedimentary recycling system: Challenging the 'source‐to‐sink'approach to zircon‐based provenance analysis

T Andersen, H van Niekerk, MA Elburg - Sedimentology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The age and properties of detrital zircon in a sediment reflect properties of the rocks in which
the zircon crystallized, and not necessarily the immediate precursor of the host sediment …

[HTML][HTML] Post break-up tectonic inversion across the southwestern cape of South Africa: New insights from apatite and zircon fission track thermochronometry

M Wildman, R Brown, R Watkins, A Carter, A Gleadow… - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
The south-west African margin is regarded as an example of a passive continental margin
formed by continental rifting following a phase of lithospheric extension and thinning. Recent …

18,000 years of grassland evolution in the summer rainfall region of South Africa: evidence from Mahwaqa Mountain, KwaZulu-Natal

FH Neumann, GA Botha, L Scott - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2014 - Springer
A palynological and sedimentological record from the Mahwaqa Mountain in KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa, provides evidence of the vegetation dynamics in this part of the Grassland …

U–Pb and Lu–Hf zircon data in young sediments reflect sedimentary recycling in eastern South Africa

T Andersen, M Elburg… - Journal of the …, 2016 - lyellcollection.org
Detrital zircon from unconsolidated, Cenozoic sediments from eastern South Africa has been
analysed for U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopes by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass …

Hominin-bearing caves and landscape dynamics in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa

PHGM Dirks, LR Berger - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper provides constraints on the evolution of the landscape in the Cradle of
Humankind (CoH), UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Africa, since the Pliocene. The aim …

[PDF][PDF] The sub-Kalahari geology and tectonic evolution of the Kalahari Basin, southern Africa

IG Haddon - Unpublished Ph. D. thesis, University of the …, 2005 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
Geophysical, borehole and mapped data from the Kalahari Basin were used to create maps
of the sub-Kalahari geology, isopachs of the Kalahari Group and basal gravels and a sub …

[PDF][PDF] Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formationhosted high-grade hematite iron ore deposits of the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa

AJB Smith, NJ Beukes - Episodes Journal of International Geoscience, 2016 - episodes.org
270 between 800 and 1200 AD, with modern exploration and mining starting from 1916. The
first production of high-grade banded iron formation-hosted ore commenced in 1931 from …

Open-system behaviour of detrital zircon during weathering: an example from the Palaeoproterozoic Pretoria Group, South Africa

T Andersen, MA Elburg - Geological Magazine, 2022 - cambridge.org
Detrital zircon in six surface samples of sandstone and contact metamorphic quartzite of the
Magaliesberg and Rayton formations of the Pretoria Group (depositional age c. 2.20–2.06 …