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Dec. 7, 1971
Bushmanland syenite
3130 m.y. + 30
onverwacht lava
3550 + 30 m.y.
Dated by Oothuizen
(Chief of Mr. Wilson) Gert Smuts
"New Lead Isotopic Ages for
Minerals in Granitic Rocks Northern+
Central Transvaal" - by A.J. Burger, E.J. Oothuizen +
C.B. Van Nickerk
Dept of Mines - Pret S.A.
Ann. of th. Geol. Surv., Vol 6 -
1967 (Govt Printer -
Bosman St, Pretoria)
Nelspruit Granite is according to
Woestie older than folding of Barberton
mts.
"T. Geochronology of a suite of Rocks
fr. t. Granitic Terrain surrounding the
Barberton Mt. Land " E.J. Oothuizen
1970 PhD Thesis, Univ. of Witwatersrand
Johburg.
H.L Allsopp + John Ferguson
- Wits Univ.
"Measurements relating to genesis
of t. Tsuneb Pipe, S.W.A."
Earth & Planetary Sci Letters 9 (1970)
448 - 453, North-Holland Publishing
Co,
At Univ. of Wits weekend
M.S' Heidi Anderson - Maltino beds
PHD Anna Benekse - Brakfont + Lange
Riviers.
Telephone conversation 12/7/71
Oothuizen - says at base of
Onverwacht lava is a quartzite
C/O
Nat'l Institute of Metallurgy
Private Bag 6
Cottesloe, Johannesburg