Pyroclastic flow deposits from a kimberlite eruption: The Orapa South Crater, Botswana
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Pyroclastic flow deposits from a kimberlite eruption: The Orapa South Crater, Botswana
11 The Orapa Diamond Mine (Republic of Botswana) exposes a bi-lobate kimberlite 12 pipe that erupted during the Late-Cretaceous epoch (∼93 Ma) through Archaean 13 basement and volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Karoo Supergroup. Geological map14 ping of the crater zone of the South Pipe has revealed a 15–25 m thick in-situ 15 kimberlite pyroclastic flow deposit. The pyroclastic deposit fills in t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Lithos
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0024-4937
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.04.016