- Title
- Geochemical variations in a long Karoo dyke, Eastern Cape
- Creator
- Marsh, Julian S
- Creator
- Mndaweni, M J
- Date Issued
- 1998
- Date
- 1998
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149715
- Identifier
- vital:38877
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-1abee09c1f
- Description
- A prominent vertical dolerite dyke, up to 30 m wide and which can be traced for over 100 km, is compositionally homogeneous along much of its length and shows no evidence of flow differentiation. Associated parallel dykes are compositionally distinct and are unrelated by closed-system processes. The main dyke has geochemical characteristics of the Maloti or Senqu Units in the upper part of the main Lesotho basalt sequence, whereas the parallel dykes are geochemically similar to the lower Mafika Lisiu Unit. On the basis of size and composition the main dyke may well represent a fissure which once fed effusions of Karoo basalt.
- Format
- 4 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Geology
- Relation
- Marsh, J.S. and Mndaweni, M.J., 1998. Geochemical variations in a long Karoo dyke, Eastern Cape. South African Journal of Geology, 101(2), pp.119-122.
- Relation
- South African Journal of Geology volume 101 number 2 119 122 June 1998 1012-0750
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