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Acknowledgements
First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor for his guidance during my study. It
was a pleasure to work with him, and with the freedom he gave me it was possible to
approach the Pan-African geology and zircon geochronology. Thanks for his enthusiasm
and patience during the last six years.
Special thanks are due to my field assistants who accompanied me during the field
trips. I will never forget the great time with them in the field, and I am reminded of them
many times, because sometimes I would have been lost without their assistance in the
Chiswiti Communal Land. Cordial thanks to all friends I met in the Chiswiti Communal
Land, particularly the staff at Pachanza School, who arranged the best accommodation
possible in the area I ever had. Special thanks to all my friends at the Chividze General
Dealer for all cold cokes and beers after a day in work. It was a great honour for me to
meet all these friends.
Thanks to the staff at the Department of Geology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare,
for their support during field work. Especially for providing field equipment, their
assistance in the organization, as well as the sawing and crushing of samples.
I particularly thank the staff at the MPI for the introduction to isotope geochemistry
and geochronology, for their support, useful discussions and critical comments during
laboratory work at the MPI, during the writing of this thesis and reviews of the manuscript.
In addition, I would like to thank the “MPI lab group” for being great lab
colleagues and their never ending support. Thanks to all colleagues and friends for helpful
discussions.
In addition I thank the staff at the Geosciences Department of Johannes Gutenberg-
University for support and help at the microprobe, the XRF, in the geochemistry and rockcrushing
lab and at mineral separation. I am very grateful to the secretaries for their help
with administrative questions.
Last but not least I thank my family for their patience and everything they did for
me during the last 34 years. Very special thanks to my wife Angelika and daughters Ann-
Cathrin and Helen for their support, patience and understanding for missing family-live.
They helped and encouraged me to study African geology and to finish the presented
study.
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