A review of new interpretations of the tectonostratigraphy, geochemistry and evolution of the Onverwacht Suite, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

H Furnes, M De Wit, B Robins - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The Paleoarchean (ca. 3.5–3.3 Ga) Onverwacht Suite (OS) of the Barberton Greenstone Belt
consists of a 15‐km thick imbricate tectonic stack of seven complexes consisting …

Low-temperature chlorite geothermometry and related recent analytical advances: a review

F Bourdelle - Minerals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chlorite, a 2: 1: 1 phyllosilicate, has all the required attributes to form the basis of a
geothermometer: this mineral is ubiquitous in metamorphic, diagenetic, and hydrothermal …

A new chlorite geothermometer for diagenetic to low-grade metamorphic conditions

F Bourdelle, T Parra, C Chopin, O Beyssac - Contributions to Mineralogy …, 2013 - Springer
The evolution of chlorite composition with temperature (and pressure) serves as basis to a
number of chlorite chemical thermometers, for which the oxidation state of iron has been …

A thermodynamic model for di-trioctahedral chlorite from experimental and natural data in the system MgO–FeO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O: applications to PT sections …

P Lanari, T Wagner, O Vidal - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2014 - Springer
We present a new thermodynamic activity-composition model for di-trioctahedral chlorite in
the system FeO–MgO–Al 2 O 3–SiO 2–H 2 O that is based on the Holland–Powell internally …

Modeling metamorphic rocks using equilibrium thermodynamics and internally consistent databases: Past achievements, problems and perspectives

P Lanari, E Duesterhoeft - Journal of Petrology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The astonishing progress of personal computer technology in the past 30 years as well as
the availability of thermodynamic data and modeling programs have revolutionized our …

[PDF][PDF] Low-temperature chlorite geothermometry: a graphical representation based on a T–R2+–Si diagram

F Bourdelle, M Cathelineau - European Journal of Mineralogy, 2015 - Citeseer
The chlorites are good indicators of rock history because their wide compositional variations
are sensitive to the formation conditions, like pressure (P), temperature (T), redox state, fluid …

A Windows program for chlorite calculation and classification

F Yavuz, M Kumral, N Karakaya, MÇ Karakaya… - Computers & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract A Microsoft Visual Basic program, WinCcac, has been developed to calculate the
structural formulae of chlorite. WinCcac classifies rock-forming chlorite group minerals …

Neotethys closure history of Anatolia: insights from 40Ar–39Ar geochronology and P–T estimation in high‐pressure metasedimentary rocks

A Pourteau, M Sudo, O Candan… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The multiple high‐pressure (HP), low‐temperature (LT) metamorphic units of Western and
Central Anatolia offer a great opportunity to investigate the subduction‐and continental …

Deciphering temperature, pressure and oxygen-activity conditions of chlorite formation

O Vidal, P Lanari, M Munoz, F Bourdelle… - Clay Minerals, 2016 - cambridge.org
The advantages and limits of empirical, semi-empirical and thermodynamic methods
devoted to the estimation of chlorite-formation temperature are discussed briefly. The results …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoarchean bedrock lithologies across the Makhonjwa Mountains of South Africa and Swaziland linked to geochemical, magnetic and tectonic data reveal …

M de Wit, H Furnes, S MacLennan, M Doucouré… - Geoscience …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Makhonjwa Mountains, traditionally referred to as the Barberton Greenstone
Belt, retain an iconic Paleoarchean archive against which numerical models of early earth …