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    • The Paleoarchean Buffalo River komatiites: Progressive melting of a single large mantle plume beneath the growing Kaapvaal craton 

      Netshidzivhe, Thendo; Tappe, Sebastian; Wilson, Allan H.; Ishikawa, Akira; Viljoen, Fanus (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-01)
      Several Archean granitoid-greenstone terranes are exposed on the southeastern Kaapvaal craton in South Africa, but they received little scientific attention compared to the archetypal greenstone belt successions of the Barberton Mountain Land at the eastern craton margin. This study reports on a detailed field and geochemical survey of the Buffalo River Greenstone Belt at the southern Kaapvaal craton ...