Damara orogeny
The Damara Orogeny created the Naukluft Mountains between 550 Ma and 495 Ma.[1][2][3][4][5] The Damara Orogeny occurred late in the creation of Gondwana, at the intersection of the Congo and the Kalahari cratons.[1][2][3][4][5]
References
- ^ a b http://gondwanaresearch.com/gray.pdf
- ^ a b JUNG, S. & MEZGER, K. 2003. U-Pb garnet chronometry in high-grade rocks; case studies from garnet ages and the role of high U-Th inclusions. Contributions to Mineralogy Petrology 146, 382-396.
- ^ a b JUNG, S, HOERNES, S. & MEZGER, K. 2000. Geochronology and petrogenesis of Pan-African syn-tectonic S-type and post-tectonic A-type granite (Namibia) – products of melting of crustal sources, fractional crystallization and wall rock entrainment. Lithos 50, 259-287.
- ^ a b KUKLA, C. 1993. Strontium isotope heterogeneities in amphibolite facies, banded metasediments— a case study from the Late Proterozoic Kuiseb Formation of the southern Damara Orogen, Central Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia Memoir 15, 139pp.
- ^ a b KUKLA, C., KRAMM, U., KUKLA, P.A., OKRUSCH, M. 1991. U-Pb monazite data relating to metamorphism and granite intrusion in the northwestern Khomas Trough, Damara Orogen, Central Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 7, 49-54.
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