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1300. Area code. 013. Website. [1] Barberton is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, which has its origin in the 1880s gold rush in the region. It is situated in the De Kaap Valley and is fringed by the Makhonjwa Mountains. It is 43 kilometres (27 mi) south of Mbombela and 360 kilometres (220 mi) east of Johannesburg . Barberton ...
The Barberton Mountain is a well preserved pre-3.0 Ga granite-greenstone terrane. The greenstone belt consists of a sequence of mafic to ultramafic lavas and metasedimentary rocks emplaced and deposited between 3.5 and 3.2 Ga. The granitoid rocks were emplaced over a 500 million year time span and can be divided into two suites.
The Barberton Greenstone Belt of eastern South Africa contains some of the most widely accepted fossil evidence for Archean life. These cell -sized prokaryote fossils are seen in the Barberton fossil record in rocks as old as 3.5 billion years. [1] The Barberton Greenstone Belt is an excellent place to study the Archean Earth due to exposed ...
Description Simplified geologic map of the Barberton greenstone belt.pdf. English: This is a simplified geologic map of the Barberton Greenstone belt, South Africa, showing three of the major Groups and their interactions as well as the Kaap Valley Craton. Date. 10 October 2013, 15:38:59. Source.
Eureka City. Eureka City is a ghost town in South Africa. It was established in 1885, when gold was discovered on the Sheba Reef. [1] It is located 7 km from Barberton, Mpumalanga. [2] Its ruins are now located in the northern section of Mountainlands Nature Reserve. [3] A permit from the authorities is now required to enter the ghost town. [4]
013. Sheba is a rural settlement northeast of Barberton in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It is situated in the De Kaap Valley and is fringed by the Makhonjwa Mountains. It is 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Nelspruit and 360 kilometres (220 mi) to the east of Johannesburg. On Census 2011 maps it is marked as Bonanza Gold Mine, the ...
The Barberton greenstone belt (BGB) is located in the Kapvaal craton of southeastern Africa. It characterizes one of the most well-preserved and oldest pieces of continental crust today by containing rocks in the Barberton Granite Greenstone Terrain (3.55–3.22 Ga ). The BGB is a small, cusp-shaped succession of volcanic and sedimentary rocks ...
The craton is a mixture of early Archean (3.0–3.5 Ga) granite greenstone terranes and older tonalitic gneisses (ca. 3.6–3.7 Ga), intruded by a variety of granitic plutons (3.3–3.0 Ga). Subsequent evolution of the Kaapvaal Craton (3.0–2.7 Ga) is thought to be associated with continent–arc collision that caused an overlaying succession ...