Former BC Postdoc Dr. Kathryn Maneiro and Prof. Ethan Baxter co-author a paper in a Special Issue of South African Journal of Geology

The Barberton Granite-Greenstone Belt in South Africa is one of the oldest sections of continental crust on the planet.  It thus records some of the earliest tectonic processes that have shaped the Earth.  In this paper, Dr. Kathryn Maneiro (former BC postdoc, now asst, professor at Wheaton College, IL) dated garnets in these rocks at 3.2 Ga making them perhaps the oldest garnets ever dated. The paper entitled "Metamorphic evolution for the Inyoni shear zone: Investigating the geodynamic evolution of a 3.20 Ga terrane boundary in the Barberton granitoid greenstone terrane, South Africa" is part of a special issue dedicated to Barberton and Archean Geology.  To learn more about Prof. Baxter's research, visit his website.