The boundaries of the West African craton / edited by Nasser Ennih and Jean-Paul Liégeois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ennih, Nasser.

Liégeois, Jean-Paul.

Geological Society of London

Series:

Geological Society special publication ; no. 297.

Geological Society special publication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cratons--Africa, West.

Cratons.

West Africa.

Physical Description:

viii, 533 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Williston, VT : Geological Society, 2008.

Contents:

The boundaries of the West African craton, with special reference to the basement of the Moroccan metacratonic Anti-Atlas belt / N. Ennih & J.-P. Liégeois

REE patterns, Nd-Sm and U-Pb ages of the metamorphic rocks of the Diagorou-Darbani greenstone belt (Liptako, SW Niger): implication for Birimian (Palaeoproterozoic) crustal genesis / A. Soumaila ... [et al.]

Two Mesoarchaean terranes in the Reguibat shield of NW Mauritania / R.M. Key ... [et al.]

Geological setting of the Guelb Moghrein Fe oxide-Cu-Au-Co mineralization, Akjoujt area, Mauritania / J. Kolb ... [et al.]

Possible primary sources of diamond in the North African diamondiferous province / M. Kahoui, Y. Mahdjoub & F.V. Kaminsky

Geochronology and metamorphic P-T-X evolution of the Eburnean granulite- facies metapelites of Tidjenouine (Central Hoggar, Algeria): witness of the LATEA metacratonic evolution / A. Bendaoud ... [et al.]

First report of ultrahightemperature sapphirine + spinel + quartz and orthopyroxene + spinel + quartz parageneses discovered in Al-Mg granulites from the Khanfous area (In Ouzzal metacraton, Hoggar, Algeria) / Z. Adjerid ... [et al.]

Review of the orogenic belts on the western side of the West African craton: the Bassarides, Rokelides and Mauritanides / M. Villeneuve

Neoproterozoic garnet-glaucophanites and eclogites: new insights for subduction metamorphism of the Gourma fold and thrust belt (eastern Mali) / R. Caby ... [et al.]

Tectonic significance of carbonatite and ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Pan-African Dahomeyide suture zone, southeastern Ghana / K. Attoh & P.M. Nude

Mélanges and ophiolites during the Pan-African orogeny: the case of the Bou-Azzer ophiolite suite (Morocco) / R. Bousquet ... [et al.]

Gold mineralization in the Proterozoic Bleida ophiolite, Anti-Atlas, Morocco / A. Belkabir ... [et al.]

Petrology and geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic Siroua granitoids (central Anti-Atlas, Morocco): evolution from subduction related to within-plate magmatism / A. Touil ... [et al.]

Late Neoproterozoic carbonate productivity in a rifting context: the Adoudou formation and its associated bimodal volcanism onlapping the western Saghro inlier, Morocco / J.J. Álvaro ... [et al.]

The Cambrian volcano-sedimentary formations of the westernmost High Atlas (Morocco): their place in the geodynamic evolution of the West African Palaeo-Gondwana northern margin / A. Pouclet, H. Ouazzani & A. Fekkak

The magmatic evolution at the Moroccan outboard of the West African craton between the Late Neoproterozoic and the Early Palaeozoic / H. Ezzouhairi ... [et al.]

Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian v. West African connections / R.D. Nance ... [et al.]

Zircon U-Pb geochronology of paragneisses and biotite granites from the SW Iberian Massif (Portugal): evidence for a palaeogeographical link between the Ossa-Morena Ediacaran basins and the West African craton / M.F. Pereira ... [et al.]

Petrogenesis and geodynamic evolution of the Late Neoproterozoic post-collisional felsic magmatism in NE Afyon area, western central Turkey / S. Gürsu & M.C. Goncuoglu

The Anti-Atlas chain (Morocco): the southern margin of the Variscan belt along the edge of the West African craton / A. Soulaimani & M. Burkhard

Devonian extension of the Pan-African crust north of the West African craton, and its bearing on the Variscan foreland deformation: evidence from eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) / L. Baidder ... [et al.]

The 'Rich' group of the Drâa Basin (Lower Devonian, Anti-Atlas, Morocco): an integrated sedimentary and tectonic approach / H. Ouanaimi & N. Lazreq

Orogen-parallel tectonic transport: transpression and strain partitioning in the Mauritanides of NE Senegal / M. Dabo ... [et al.]

Deep structure of the southeastern margin of the West African craton from seismic reflection data, offshore Ghana / K. Attoh & L. Brown

A complex multi-chamber magmatic system beneath a late Cenozoic volcanic field: evidence from CSDs and thermobarometry of clinopyroxene from a single nephelinite flow (Djbel Saghro, Morocco) / J. Berger ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781862392519

186239251X

OCLC:

227017910