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Armstrong, R.A., Compston, W., De Wit, M.J. and Williams, I.S., The stratigraphy of the 3.5-3.2 Ga Barberton greenstone belt revisited: a single zircon ion microprobe study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 101, 90-106 (1990).

Byerly, G.R., Kröner, A., Lowe, D.R., Todt, W., Walsh, M.M. Prolonged magmatism and time constraints for sediments deposition in the early Archaean Barberton green- stone belt: evidence from the Upper Onverwacht and Fig Tree Groups. Precambrian Research 78, 125–138 (1996).

de Ronde, C.E.J., de Wit, M.J., Tectonic history of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: 490 million years of Archean crustal evolution. Tectonics 13, 983–1015 (1994).

Dunlop, J.S.R. and Groves, D.I., 1978. Sedimentary barite of the Barberton Mountain Land: a brief review. In: J.E. Glover and D.I. Groves (Editors), Archaean cherty metasediments: their sedimentology, micropaleontology, biogeochemistry and significance to mineral- isation. Publ. Geol. Dep. Extensions, Univ. West. Aust., 2: 39—44 (1978).

Ehrenreich, A. & Widdel, F., Anaerobic oxidation of ferrous iron by purple bacteria, a new type of phototrophic metabolism. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 60, 4517-4526 (1994).

Eriksson, K. A. Siliciclastichosted ironformations in the early Archaean Barberton and Pilbara sequences. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 30, 473–482 (1983).

Eriksson, K. A., Simpson, E. L., Mueller, W. An unusual fluvial to tidal transition in the mesoarchean Moodies Group, South Africa: A response to high tidal range and active tectonics. Sedimentary Geology 190, 13–24 (2006).

Farquhar, J., Wu, N., Canfield, D. E., Oduro, H. Connections Between Sulfur Cycle Evolution, Sulfur Isotopes, Sediments, and Base Metal Sulfide Deposits. Economic Geology 105, 509–533 (2010).

Heubeck, C. & Lowe, D. R. Depositional and tectonic setting of the Archean Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa. Precambrian Research 68, 257–290 (1994).

Heubeck, C. An Early Ecosystem of Archean Tidal Microbial Mats (Moodies Group, South Africa, Ca. 3.2 Ga). Geology 37, 931–934 (2009).

Hofmann, A., Anhaeusser, C.R., Eriksson, K.A., Dziggel, A. Excursion guide to the Geology of the Barberton greenstone belt. Information Circular, Economic Geology Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 378, 49 pp. (2004).

Hofmann, A. The geochemistry of sedimentary rocks from the Fig Tree Group, Barberton greenstone belt: Implications for tectonic, hydrothermal and surface processes during mid-Archaean times. Precambrian Research 143, 23–49 (2005).

Kamo, S.L. and Davis, D.W., Reassessment of Archean crustal development in the Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa, based on U-Pb dating. Tectonics, 13, 167-192 (1994).

Kappler, A., Pasquero, C., Konhauser, K. O. und Newman, D. K., Deposition of banded iron formations by anoxygenic phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria: Geology, v. 11, p. 865-868 (2005).

Kisters, A. F., Stevens, G., Dziggel, A. & Armstrong, R. A. Extensional detachment faulting and core-complex formation in the southern Barberton granite–greenstone terrain, South Africa: evidence for a 3.2 Ga orogenic collapse. Precambrian Research 127, 355–378 (2003).

Kröner, A., Byerly, G.R., Lowe, D.R. Chronology of early Archean granite- greenstone evolution in the Barberton Moutain Land, South Africa, based on precise dating by single grain zircon evaporation. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters 103, 41–54 (1991).

Lana, C., Tohver, E. & Cawood, P. Quantifying rates of dome-and-keel formation in the Barberton granitoid-greenstone belt, South Africa. Precambrian Research 177, 199–211 (2010).

Noffke, N., Eriksson, K., Hazen, R.M., and Simpson, E.L., A new window into Early Archean life: Microbial mats in Earth’s oldest siliciclastic tidal deposits (3.2 Ga Moodies Group, South Africa): Geology, v. 34, p. 253–256, doi: 10.1130/G22246.1 (2006).

Phoenix, V.R., Bennett, P.C., Summers Engel, A., Tyler, S.W., and Ferris, F.G., Chilean high- altitude hot spring sinters: A model system for UV screening mechanisms by early Precambrian cyanobacteria: Geobiology, v. 4, p. 15– 28, doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2006.00063.x (2006).

Posth, N. R., Hegler, F., Konhauser, K. O. und Kappler, A., Alternating Si and Fe deposition caused by temperature fluctuations in Precambrian oceans: Nature Geoscience v. 1, p. 703-708 (2008)

Runnegar, B., Dollase, W.A., Ketcham, R.A., Colbert, M., Carlson, W.D., Early Archaean sulphates from Western Australia first formed as hydrothermal barites not gypsum evaporites. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. W. Prog. 33, A-404 (2001).

Simpson, E. L., Eriksson, K. A. & Mueller, W. 3.2 Ga eolian deposits from the Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Implications for the origin of first-cycle quartz sandstones. Precambrian Res., doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.01.019 (2012).

Strauss, H. Sulphur isotopes and the early Archaean sulphur cycle. Precambrian Research 126, 349–361 (2003).

 

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International Mining History Congress 2012, Abstract von: Anhaeusser, C. R., The History of mining in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, with an emphasis on gold. (1868–2012). (Zugriff am 20.05.2012):