Doctoral Degrees (Earth Sciences)
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Evolution of the continental crust and significance of the zircon record, a case study from the French Massif Central.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The formation of the continental crust is a major consequence of Earth di erentiation. Recent advances on this topic bene ted from improvements of analytical techniques enabling in situ measurements of ... -
Geological setting and evolution of the Omitiomire Cu deposit in the Southern Zone accretionary prism of the Damara Belt, Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Shear Zone hosted Cu mineralisation in the Deep Level Southern Zone accretionary prism of the Damara Belt is associated with deformation and fluid flow related to the exhumation of the Mesoproterozoic ... -
Differentiation and stabilisation of the Archean continental crust, the example of the northern edge of the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Earth is one of the only solid celestial bodies displaying, at present day, an internal activity significant enough to modify its surface. This activity is mostly pictured by plate tectonic motions, ... -
Repeated partial melting events in the polymetamorphic Carlos Chagas batholith : implications for the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Araçuaí orogen (southeastern Brazil)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Araçuaí orogen (AO), located in the southeastern Brazil, and its African counterpart, the West Congo belt, is part of the Pan-African-Brasiliano orogenic system developed between the Congo and São ... -
The effect of winery wastewater irrigation on the properties of selected soils from the South African wine region
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Due to an increase in wine production as well as an intensification of environmental legislation in South Africa, the need for guidelines for sustainable management of winery wastewater has increased. To ... -
Geology, structural evolution and controls of hydrothermal gold mineralization in the Eastern Karagwe-Ankole fold belt, North Western Tanzania
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In central-east Africa, the north-western margin of the Archaean Tanzania Craton (TC) is overlain by imbricated, low grade, volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Karagwe-Ankole belt’s (KAB) Eastern Domain (ED). ... -
Bulk geochemical, biomarker and leaf wax isotope records of Mfabeni peatland, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa since the late Pleistocene
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Southern Africa is a topographically diverse region that is influenced by temperate, sub-tropical and tropical climates encompassing varying rainfall zones. The core regional contemporary climatic drivers ... -
The processes of melt segregation, magma ascent and pluton emplacement in the continental crust of the Damara Belt, Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Theoretical models of meso- and macroscale granitic melt/magma transport commonly invoke a prominent role for dilatant fracturing of the wall rocks, but supporting field evidence is in many cases only ... -
The metamorphic and anatectic history of Archaean metapelitic granulites from the South Marginal Zone, Limpopo Belt, South Africa.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Anatexis is the first step in granite genesis. Partial melting in the lower crust may produce leucoratic features of unusual chemical compositions, very different from the final products of crustal ... -
Structure and evolution of basin and petroleum systems within a transformrelated passive margin setting : data-based insights from crust-scale 3D modelling of the Western Bredasdorp Basin, offshore South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the crustal structure, and assesses the qualitative and quantitative impacts of crust-mantle dynamics on subsidence pattern, past and present-day thermal field and petroleum system ... -
Distribution and characterization of marine iron-rich particles
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates questions surrounding the role that iron-rich colloids (nominally sized between 0.02 μm and 0.2 μm) and particulates (>0.2-0.45 μm) play in the context of the greater ... -
The formation of Earth’s early felsic continental crust by water-present eclogite melting
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The sodic and leucocratic Tonalite, Trondhjemite and Granodiorite (TTG) granitoid series of rocks characterise Paleo- to Meso- Archaean felsic continental crust, yet are uncommon in the post-Archaean ... -
On the sedimentation of the Table Mountain Group in the Western Cape Province
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1967-11)INTRODUCTION: This dissertation aims to illuminate some surprises which the deceptively uncomplicated Table Mountain sandstone had long been harbouring in its kloofs and cliffs . The major contributions of this first ... -
The Darling granite batholith
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1972-09)The Darling batholith is characterised by large scale hybridisation, but mainly consists of the coarsely porphyritic Darling granite. This granite changes gradationally into a biotite-rich variety which occupies a roughly ... -
Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Swartland region and aspects of orogenic lode-gold mineralisation in the Pan-African Saldania Belt, Western Cape, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Swartland region in the western Cape, South Africa, covers approximately 5000 km2 and forms part of the Pan-African Saldania Belt that represents the southernmost extremity of the Pan-African ... -
Provenance of alluvial diamonds in Southern Africa : a morphological and mineral chemistry study of diamonds and related heavy minerals from the Vaalorange system and the West Coast
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The discovery of lucrative diamond deposits along the west coast of Southern Africa about 1200 kilometres from the Kimberley region during the period 1908 to 1927, gave rise to a number of different ... -
The geology and petrology of the Marble Delta
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1973-02)The Marble Delta is an area of approximately 40 sq. km in Natal (30°22' Long., 30°40' Lat.), occupied by Precambrian marble and associated granites. The deeply dissected country was geologically mapped on a scale of I : 6 ... -
The petrogenesis of the older (> 3.0 Ga) potassic granitoids of eastern Mpumalanga (South Africa) and Swaziland : an investigation of crustal formation processes in the early Earth
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Earth’s oldest preserved granitoid crust dates back to the Paleoarchean and consists predominantly of sodic tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) granitoids that arose through the partial melting ... -
Experimental evidence for sulphide magma percolation and evolution : relevant to the chromite bearing reefs of the Bushveld Complex
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Pt mineralization within the Bushveld Complex is strikingly focused on the chromitite reefs, despite these horizons being associated with low volumes of base metal sulphide relative to Pt grade. Partitioning ... -
The anatectic history of Archaean metasedimentary granulites from the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Swaziland
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is an investigation of the anatectic history of high-grade paragneisses from the Ancient Gneiss Complex (AGC) in Swaziland. The work involved an integrated field, metamorphic, geochemical, ...
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