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The geology of Zimbabwe in southern Africa is centered on the Zimbabwe Craton, a core of Archean basement composed in the main of granitoids, schist and gneisses. It also incorporates greenstone belts comprising mafic, ultramafic and felsic volcanics which are associated with epiclastic sediments and iron formations. The craton is overlain in the north, northwest and east by Proterozoic and Phanerozoic sedimentary basins whilst to the northwest are the rocks of the . Northwards is the Zambezi Belt and to the east the Mozambique Belt. South of the Zimbabwe Craton is the Kaapvaal Craton separated from it by the Limpopo Mobile Belt, a zone of deformation and metamorphism reflecting geological events from Archean to Mesoproterozoic times. The Zimbabwe Craton is intruded by an elongate ultramaf

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  • Geology of Zimbabwe (en)
  • Геологія Зімбабве (uk)
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  • The geology of Zimbabwe in southern Africa is centered on the Zimbabwe Craton, a core of Archean basement composed in the main of granitoids, schist and gneisses. It also incorporates greenstone belts comprising mafic, ultramafic and felsic volcanics which are associated with epiclastic sediments and iron formations. The craton is overlain in the north, northwest and east by Proterozoic and Phanerozoic sedimentary basins whilst to the northwest are the rocks of the . Northwards is the Zambezi Belt and to the east the Mozambique Belt. South of the Zimbabwe Craton is the Kaapvaal Craton separated from it by the Limpopo Mobile Belt, a zone of deformation and metamorphism reflecting geological events from Archean to Mesoproterozoic times. The Zimbabwe Craton is intruded by an elongate ultramaf (en)
  • Геологічна будова Зімбабве. Зімбабве розташована в півд. частині Африканської платформи. Більшу частину тер. країни займає кристалічний масив Зімбабве, в складі якого виділяється граніто-гнейсове ядро (кратон), обрамоване субширотними складчастими поясами: Лімпопо на півдні і Замбезі на півночі. Ядро складене катархейськими (3,7-3,8 млрд років) граніто-гнейсами тоналітового складу, вище яких залягають складчасті осадово-вулканогенні комплекси зеленокам'яних поясів катархею (система Себаквай, вік понад 3,5 млрд років), ниж. і верх. архею (система Булавайо, 2,7-2,9 млрд років), прорвані архейськими тоналітами, гранітами і основними інтрузіями. Зеленокам'яні пояси містять родов. руд заліза, хрому, золота, кобальту, міді, нікелю, азбесту, магнезиту, мармуру. У розрізі зеленокам'яних поясів пер (uk)
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  • The geology of Zimbabwe in southern Africa is centered on the Zimbabwe Craton, a core of Archean basement composed in the main of granitoids, schist and gneisses. It also incorporates greenstone belts comprising mafic, ultramafic and felsic volcanics which are associated with epiclastic sediments and iron formations. The craton is overlain in the north, northwest and east by Proterozoic and Phanerozoic sedimentary basins whilst to the northwest are the rocks of the . Northwards is the Zambezi Belt and to the east the Mozambique Belt. South of the Zimbabwe Craton is the Kaapvaal Craton separated from it by the Limpopo Mobile Belt, a zone of deformation and metamorphism reflecting geological events from Archean to Mesoproterozoic times. The Zimbabwe Craton is intruded by an elongate ultramafic/mafic igneous complex known as the Great Dyke which runs for more than 500 km along a SSW/NNE oriented graben. It consists of peridotites, pyroxenites, norites and bands of chromitite. (en)
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