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Table of Contents - Special Paper 329

Geologic Evolution of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

Foreword		v
1.	Stratigraphy of the west-central part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Donald R. Lowe and Gary R. Byerly	1
2.	Structural divisions and development of the west-central part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt Donald R. Lowe, Gary R. Byerly, and Christoph Heubeck	37
3.	Petrology and sedimentology of cherts and related silicified sedimentary rocks in the Swaziland Supergroup Donald R. Lowe	83
4.	Modes of accumulation of carbonaceous matter in the Early Archean: A petrographic and geochemical study of the carbonaceous cherts of the Swaziland Supergroup Maud M. Walsh and Donald R. Lowe	115
5.	Geochemistry of mafic and ultramafic rocks in the Kromberg Formation in its type section, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa T. W. Vennemann and H. S. Smith	133
6.	Subaqueous to subaerial Archean ultramafic phreatomagmatic volcanism, Kromberg Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Barbara Ransom, Gary R. Byerly, and Donald R. Lowe	151
7.	Sedimentology, mineralogy, and implications of silicified evaporites in the Kromberg Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa Donald R. Lowe and Gail Fisher Worrell	167
8.	Komatiites of the Mendon Formation: Late-stage ultramafic volcanism in the Barberton Greenstone Belt Gary R. Byerly	189
9.	Shallow-water sedimentation of accretionary lapilli-bearing strata of the Msauli Chert: Evidence of explosive hydromagmatic komatiitic volcanism Donald R. Lowe	213
10.	Foreland basin sedimentation in the Mapepe Formation, southern-facies Fig Tree Group Donald R. Lowe and Bruce W. Nocita	233
11.	Sedimentary petrography and provenance of the Archean Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt Christoph Heubeck and Donald R. Lowe	259
12.	Geologic evolution of the Barberton Greenstone Belt and vicinity Donald R. Lowe	287
Index		313