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2. Barberton Greenstone Belt - Wikipedia

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   The Barberton Mountain is a well preserved pre-3.0 Ga granite-greenstone terrane. The greenstone belt consists of a sequence of mafic to ultramafic lavas and metasedimentary rocks emplaced and deposited between 3.5 and 3.2 Ga. The granitoid rocks were emplaced over a 500 million year time span and can be divided into two suites.

3. Archean life in the Barberton Greenstone Belt - Wikipedia

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   The Barberton Greenstone Belt of eastern South Africa contains some of the most widely accepted fossil evidence for Archean life. These cell -sized prokaryote fossils are seen in the Barberton fossil record in rocks as old as 3.5 billion years. [1] The Barberton Greenstone Belt is an excellent place to study the Archean Earth due to exposed ...

4. Greenstone belt - Wikipedia

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   One of the best known greenstone belts in the world is the South African Barberton greenstone belt, where gold was first discovered in South Africa. The Barberton Greenstone belt was first uniquely identified by Prof Annhauser at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His work in mapping and detailing the characteristics of the ...

5. Makhonjwa Mountains - Wikipedia

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   Africa. The Makhonjwa Mountains or Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains are a range of small mountains and hills that covers an area of 120 by 60 kilometres (75 by 37 mi), about 80% in Mpumalanga, a province of South Africa, and the remainder in neighbouring Eswatini. [2] It constitutes 40% of the Barberton Greenstone Belt.

6. Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone belt - Wikipedia

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   The Barberton greenstone belt (BGB) is located in the Kapvaal craton of southeastern Africa. It characterizes one of the most well-preserved and oldest pieces of continental crust today by containing rocks in the Barberton Granite Greenstone Terrain (3.55–3.22 Ga ). The BGB is a small, cusp-shaped succession of volcanic and sedimentary rocks ...

7. Fig Tree Formation - Wikipedia

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   Had. / -25.8; 31.0. The Fig Tree Formation, also called Fig Tree Group, is a stromatolite -containing geological formation in South Africa. The rock contains fossils of microscopic life forms of about 3.26 billion years old. [1] Identified organisms include the bacterium Eobacterium isolatum and the algae -like Archaeosphaeroides barbertonensis.