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Isoclinally infolded remnant of amphibolite schists, intruded by unmetamorphosed Kamativi Dyke Swarm dolerite dyke

Grid Ref (WGS84 Lat/Long in decimal degrees)

-18.452670, 26.884640
Location: 
Along Bulawayo Falls Road
Stratigraphy: 
Malaputese Group & Kamativi Dyke
Description: 

At the sign that marks 40 km to Gwayi River, there is a roadcut exposure of isoclinally folded amphibolite and biotite schists which was mapped by Lockett (1979a), who regarded it as a tightly infolded remnant of the Malaputese supracrustal sequence, surrounded by basement granitoid gneisses. It may possibly be a large raft or xenolith, or even a roof pendant, of the Palaeoproterozoic post-Magondi biotite granodiorites that are found close by (Stop 8), containing numerous biotite-rich schlieren. At the SE end of the roadcut, there is a prominent exposure, with large rounded boulders, of one of the dolerite dykes that make up the Kamativi Dyke Swarm (Wilson et al., 1987). This dyke swarm has not yet been dated, and no palaeomagnetic work has yet been done on its dykes.

Permission: 
N/A
Further Reading: 
Geological Society of Zimbabwe Annual Summer Symposium, Victoria Falls, 28-30 November 2013, Field Excursion Guidebook "An Introduction to the geology and geochronology of the Dete-Kamativi Inlier" by Dr Sharad Master of the Economic Geology Research Institute, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, sharad.master@wits.ac.za
Author Credit: 
Sharad Master
Contributed: 
01/12/2013
Updated: 
15/10/2014