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Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa by Berger, Lee R, de Ruiter, Darryl J, Churchill, Steven E, Schmid, Peter, Carlson, Kristian J, Dirks, Paul H.G.M, Kibii, Job M

“…Despite a rich African Plio-Pleistocene hominin fossil record, the ancestry of Homo and its relation to earlier australopithecines remain unresolved. Here we…”
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Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and Implications for the Origins of the Genus Homo by Pickering, Robyn, Dirks, Paul H. G. M., Jinnah, Zubair, de Ruiter, Darryl J., Churchil, Steven E., Herries, Andy I. R., Woodhead, Jon D., Hellstrom, John C., Berger, Lee R.

“…Newly exposed cave sediments at the Malapa site include a flowstone layer capping the sedimentary unit containing the Australopithecus sediba fossils…”
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Geological Setting and Age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa by Dirks, Paul H. G. M., Kibii, Job M., Kuhn, Brian F., Steininger, Christine, Churchill, Steven E., Kramers, Jan D., Pickering, Robyn, Farber, Daniel L., Mériaux, Anne-Sophie, Herries, Andy I. R., King, Geoffrey C. P., Berger, Lee R.

“…We describe the geological, geochronological, geomorphological, and faunal context of the Malapa site and the fossils of Australopithecus sediba. The hominins…”
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Shear wave velocity structure of the lower crust in southern Africa: Evidence for compositional heterogeneity within Archaean and Proterozoic terrains by Kgaswane, Eldridge M., Nyblade, Andrew A., Julià, Jordi, Dirks, Paul H. G. M., Durrheim, Raymond J., Pasyanos, Michael E.

“…The nature of the lower crust across the southern African shield has been investigated by jointly inverting receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group…”
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Taphonomic Analysis of the Faunal Assemblage Associated with the Hominins (Australopithecus sediba) from the Early Pleistocene Cave Deposits of Malapa, South Africa by Val, Aurore, Dirks, Paul H G M, Backwell, Lucinda R, d'Errico, Francesco, Berger, Lee R

“…Here we present the results of a taphonomic study of the faunal assemblage associated with the hominin fossils (Australopithecus sediba) from the Malapa site…”
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Initiation of the western branch of the East African Rift coeval with the eastern branch by Roberts, E. M., Stevens, N. J., O’Connor, P. M., Dirks, P. H. G. M., Gottfried, M. D., Clyde, W. C., Armstrong, R. A., Kemp, A. I. S., Hemming, S.

“…The East African Rift System transects the anomalously high-elevation Ethiopian and East African plateaux that together form part of the 6,000-km-long African…”
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Tectonic setting and mineralisation potential of the Cowley Ophiolite Complex, north Queensland by Edgar, A., Sanislav, I. V., Dirks, P. H. G. M.

“…Northeast Queensland contains multiple slices of mafic-ultramafic units, strung out along regional faults that mark major tectonic boundaries. One such complex…”
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Upper Mantle Seismic Structure Beneath Southern Africa: Constraints on the Buoyancy Supporting the African Superswell by Brandt, Martin B. C., Grand, Stephen P., Nyblade, Andrew A., Dirks, Paul H. G. M.

“…We present new one-dimensional SH-wave velocity models of the upper mantle beneath the Kalahari craton in southern Africa obtained from waveform inversion of…”
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The Watershed tungsten deposit, northeast Queensland, Australia; Permian metamorphic tungsten mineralization overprinting Carboniferous magmatic tungsten by Poblete, Jaime A, Dirks, Paul H. G. M, Chang, Zhaoshan, Huizenga, Jan Marten, Griessmann, Martin, Hall, Chris

“…The Watershed tungsten deposit (49.2 Mt avg 0.14% WO3) lies within the Mossman orogen, which comprises deformed Silurian-Ordovician metasedimentary rocks of…”
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Geochemistry of indium in magmatic-hydrothermal tin and sulfide deposits of the Herberton Mineral Field, Australia by Kumar, Avish A., Sanislav, Ioan V., Cathey, Henrietta E., Dirks, Paul H. G. M.

“…The Herberton Mineral Field in Northeast Australia hosts world class magmatic-hydrothermal Sn–W polymetallic deposits that are enriched in In. The Baal Gammon…”
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Copper-gold fertility of arc volcanic rocks; a case study from the Early Permian Lizzie Creek volcanic group, NE Queensland, Australia by Behnsen, Helge, Spandler, Carl, Corral, Isaac, Chang, Zhaoshan, Dirks, Paul H. G. M

“…The Early Permian Lizzie Creek Volcanic Group of the northern Bowen Basin, NE Queensland, Australia, has compositions that range from basalt through andesite…”
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Formation of mud clast breccias and the process of sedimentary autobrecciation in the hominin‐bearing (Homo naledi) Rising Star Cave system, South Africa by Wiersma, Jelle P., Roberts, Eric M., Dirks, Paul H. G. M., Kwiecien, Ola

“…Unconsolidated mud clast breccia facies in the hominin‐bearing (Homo naledi) Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, are interpreted to have…”
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P-T conditions of metamorphic and hydrothermal events at Tick Hill gold deposit, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia by Le, T. X., Dirks, P. H. G. M., Sanislav, I. V., Huizenga, J. M., Cocker, H. A., Nguyen, G. T. T.

“…Tick Hill gold deposit is a unique gold mineralisation style in the Mary Kathleen Fold Belt in the Mount Isa Inlier. The gold at Tick Hill is generally pure…”
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The age of fossil StW573 (‘Little Foot’) : reply to comments by Stratford et al. (2017) by Kramers, Jan D., Dirks, Paul H.G.M.

“…We reply to comments by Stratford et al.1 on our article2 ‘The age of fossil StW573 (‘Little Foot’): An alternative interpretation of 26Al/10Be burial data’,…”
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Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa by Dirks, Paul H G M, Berger, Lee R, Roberts, Eric M, Kramers, Jan D, Hawks, John, Randolph-Quinney, Patrick S, Elliott, Marina, Musiba, Charles M, Churchill, Steven E, de Ruiter, Darryl J, Schmid, Peter, Backwell, Lucinda R, Belyanin, Georgy A, Boshoff, Pedro, Hunter, K Lindsay, Feuerriegel, Elen M, Gurtov, Alia, Harrison, James du G, Hunter, Rick, Kruger, Ashley, Morris, Hannah, Makhubela, Tebogo V, Peixotto, Becca, Tucker, Steven

“…We describe the physical context of the Dinaledi Chamber within the Rising Star cave, South Africa, which contains the fossils of Homo naledi. Approximately…”
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Archaean crustal growth through successive partial melting events in an oceanic plateau‐like setting in the Tanzania Craton by Sanislav, Ioan V., Blenkinsop, Thomas G., Dirks, Paul H. G. M.

“…The detrital zircon population in quartzitic conglomerates from the northern Tanzania Craton yield ages between 2640 Ma and 2790 Ma which includes most of the…”
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Metamorphic diamond from the northeastern margin of Gondwana: Paradigm shifting implications for one of Earth’s largest orogens by Edgar, Alexander, Sanislav, Ioan V., Dirks, Paul H. G. M., Spandler, Carl

“…We describe the first occurrence of diamond-facies ultrahigh pressure metamorphism along the Gondwana-Pacific margin of the Terra Australis Orogen. Metamorphic…”
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Trace element associations in magnetite and hydrothermal pyrite from the Geita Hill gold deposit, Tanzania by van Ryt, M.R., Sanislav, I.V., Dirks, P.H.G.M., Huizenga, J.

“…Gold mineralization in the Geita Hill deposit is associated with pyrite formed along microfracture networks and sulfidation fronts together with K-feldspar and…”
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The structural history and mineralization controls of the world-class Geita Hill gold deposit, Geita Greenstone Belt, Tanzania by Sanislav, I. V., Brayshaw, M., Kolling, S. L., Dirks, P. H. G. M., Cook, Y. A., Blenkinsop, T. G.

“…The Geita Hill gold deposit is located in the Archean Geita Greenstone Belt and is one of the largest gold deposits in East Africa. The Geita Greenstone Belt…”
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Comment on “Deliberate body disposal by hominins in the Dinaledi Chamber, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa?” [J. Hum. Evol. 96 (2016) 145–148] by Dirks, P.H.G.M., Berger, L.R., Hawks, J., Randolph-Quinney, P.S., Backwell, L.R., Roberts, E.M.

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