The boundaries of the West African craton
By: edited by Nasser Ennih and Jean-Paul Liégeois.
Contributors: Ennih, Nasser.; Liégeois, Jean-Paul.; Geological Society of London.
Series: Geological Society special publication -- 297; Geological Society special publication -- no. 297.
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Williston, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9781862392519
Subjects: Cratons -- Africa, West.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: THE PALAEOPROTEROZOIC TERRANES FROM THE WEST AFRICAN CRATON AND THEIR REWORKING: 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.]; title: Two Mesoarchaean terranes in the Reguibat shield of NW Mauritania / R.M. Key ... [et al.]; title: Geological setting of the Guelb Moghrein Fe oxide-Cu-Au-Co mineralization, Akjoujt area, Mauritania / J. Kolb ... [et al.]; title: Possible primary sources of diamond in the North African diamondiferous province / M. Kahoui, Y. Mahdjoub & F.V. Kaminsky; title: 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.]; title: 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.]; title: THE PAN-AFRICAN OROGENY ALONG THE BOUNDARIES OF THE WEST AFRICAN CRATON: Review of the orogenic belts on the western side of the West African craton: the Bassarides, Rokelides and Mauritanides / M. Villeneuve; title: Neoproterozoic garnet-glaucophanites and eclogites: new insights for subduction metamorphism of the Gourma fold and thrust belt (eastern Mali) / R. Caby ... [et al.]; title: Tectonic significance of carbonatite and ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Pan-African Dahomeyide suture zone, southeastern Ghana / K. Attoh & P.M. Nude; title: Mélanges and ophiolites during the Pan-African orogeny: the case of the Bou-Azzer ophiolite suite (Morocco) / R. Bousquet ... [et al.]; title: Gold mineralization in the Proterozoic Bleida ophiolite, Anti-Atlas, Morocco / A. Belkabir ... [et al.]; title: Petrology and geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic Siroua granitoids (central Anti-Atlas, Morocco): evolution from subduction related to within-plate magmatism / A. Touil ... [et al.]; title: THE LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC-EARLY PALAEOZOIC EXTENSION ALONG THE WEST AFRICAN CRATON AND THE PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANES: 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.]; title: 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; title: The magmatic evolution at the Moroccan outboard of the West African craton between the Late Neoproterozoic and the Early Palaeozoic / H. Ezzouhairi ... [et al.]; title: Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian v. West African connections / R.D. Nance ... [et al.]; title: 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.]; title: Petrogenesis and geodynamic evolution of the Late Neoproterozoic post-collisional felsic magmatism in NE Afyon area, western central Turkey / S. Gürsu & M.C. Goncuoglu; title: THE VARISCAN OROGENY ALONG THE WEST AFRICAN CRATON: The Anti-Atlas chain (Morocco): the southern margin of the Variscan belt along the edge of the West African craton / A. Soulaimani & M. Burkhard; title: 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.]; title: The 'Rich' group of the Drâa Basin (Lower Devonian, Anti-Atlas, Morocco): an integrated sedimentary and tectonic approach / H. Ouanaimi & N. Lazreq; title: Orogen-parallel tectonic transport: transpression and strain partitioning in the Mauritanides of NE Senegal / M. Dabo ... [et al.]; title: THE CENOZOIC SITUATION ALONG THE BOUNDARIES OF WEST AFRICAN CRATON: Deep structure of the southeastern margin of the West African craton from seismic reflection data, offshore Ghana / K. Attoh & L. Brown; title: 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.].