{"title":"A gravity and magnetic traverse from Port Sudan to Abu Hamad, NE Sudan. A model of rifting","authors":"Abdel Ati Sadig","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90040-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90040-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 6","pages":"Page 833"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90040-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53876625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mount Cameroon: an active volcano of the Cameroon Line","authors":"Bernard Déruelle , Jean N'ni, Robert Kambou","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90061-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90061-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mt Cameroon is a large volcanic horst which belongs to the Cameroon Line. The morphology of the massif depends on tectonic control. Mt Cameroon is built upon a Precambrian metamorphic basement covered with Cretaceous to Recent sediments of the Douala and Rio del Rey basins. The oldest lavas could be of Upper Miocene age. Mt Cameroon has erupted six times in the 20th Century. The 1982 eruption took place inside the crater of an ancient cone. Volcanic risks are actual for the human constructions, mostly along the axis of the horst.</p><p>The lavas are picrites (with forsteritic olivine phenocrysts), alkali basalts (with salitic augite phenocrysts), hawaiites (with labrador-bytownite plagioclase phenocrysts) and mugearites (with scarce kaersutite phenocrysts and microlitic phlogopite or nosean). FeTi oxides phenocrysts are ubiquitous.</p><p>All the lavas are Ne-normative. The distribution of major and trace elements in the lava series is well explained by fractionations of the minerals found as phenocrysts, but plagioclase does not fractionate (Sr and Eu contents in the lavas increase with the differentiation). Thus, olivine, augite and FeTi oxide fractionations are respectively correlated with MgNi, CaCrSc and TiV distributions. Primitive magmatic liquids contain about 1 ppm uranium.</p><p>Ta-Th-Hf correlation and REE distribution clearly indicate that the Cameroon lava series is typically alkaline with no tholeiitic or transitional trend. This fact asserts that the Cameroon Line is not a rift system but the result of tension gashes due to the Adamaoua sinistral strike-slip faulting zone.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 2","pages":"Pages 197-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90061-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53876999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quelques precisions sur la composition mineralogique des laves tertiaires de la province volcanique de la Presqu'île du Cap-Vert (Senegal)","authors":"Abdoulaye Dia , Jean Babkine , Michel Rollet","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90067-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90067-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The late Tertiary volcanism from the volcanic province of Cap Verde Peninsula includes only silica-undersaturated basic lavas: olivine nephelinites, basanites and olivine alkaline basalts. This undersaturated alkaline series is sodic and indifferentiated.</p><p>Lavas contain olivine Fo<sub>88</sub> to Fo<sub>56</sub>, clinopyroxene Wo<sub>54</sub>En<sub>34</sub>Fs<sub>12</sub> (fassaïte) to Wo<sub>40</sub>En<sub>42</sub>Fs<sub>18</sub> (augite) present both in phenocrysts and in groundmass. Plagioclase An<sub>67</sub>An<sub>48</sub> is only found in basanites and olivine alkaline basalts. The olivine nephelinite is characterized by a soda-rich nepheline (Ne<sub>77</sub>Ks<sub>16</sub>Q<sub>7</sub>). Microphenocrysts of iron-titanium oxides may form within the more differentiated lavas of the series.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 3","pages":"Pages 257-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90067-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53877147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"40Ar/39Ar and paleomagnetic results from Liberia and the Precambrian APW data base for the West African Shield","authors":"T.C. Onstott, J. Dorbor","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90094-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90094-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lower amphibolite to granulite facies metamorphic rocks in Nimba County, Liberia have yielded 2.2–2.9 Ga RbSr whole rock ages, indicating that they are part of the Archean Liberian age province. We report a 2040 Ma<sup>40</sup><sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar plateau date on hornblende from an amphibolite in this region, and suggest that these rocks were also severelyreworked during the Eburnean (∼2.0 Ga) metamorphic episode. <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar analyses of biotite and feldspars from neighboring schists also indicate the presence of two mild thermal events, at 1.5 Ga and 0.6 Ga. Paleomagnetic analyses of samples from these same metamorphic rocks reveal three components of magnetization. The predominant and most stable component (273°E, 21°N) is considered to have been acquired as a result of pos Eburnean uplift and cooling at ∼ 2.0 Ga, whereas the two less stable components with poles at 235°E, 43°N and 16°E, 36°N, probably correlate with the 1.5 Ga and 0.6 Ga thermal pulses, respectively. Rock units from southern Liberia also yield two secondary magnetizations, one at 247°E, 37°N and the other at 104°E, 5°N, and a 1.5 Ga <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar date on plagioclase. Comparison of the paleomagnetic poles corresponding to the ∼2.0 Ga Eburnean component with published paleomagnetic data for West Africa is not consistent with prior interpretations of the polar wander path for West Africa. Our paleomagnetic data, when compared to poles of comparable age from the Kalahari Shield, still suggest that some form of displacement has occurred between the Kalahari and West African Shields since 2.0 Ga.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 4","pages":"Pages 537-552"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90094-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53877526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empirical guides to gold enrichment in Proterozoic quartz-pebble conglomerates in northern Zambia","authors":"C.P. Andrews-Speed , B.P. Mulumba","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90099-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90099-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Proterozoic quartz-pebble conglomerates and sandstones near the base of the Mporokoso Group in northern Zambia were deposited in a braided stream system and are known to be locally enriched in gold. A detailed sampling programme was carried out in small area of good exposure in order to identify empirical guides to gold enrichment and to test the hypothesis that the gold is of placer origin.</p><p>A total of 2350 rock samples were taken from nine vertical profiles across the main 50–100 m thick conglomeratic interval, spread over a horizontal distance of 4 km. These were analysed for gold by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Detailed sedimentological logging was carried out and the gold analyses were correlated with sedimentary parameters. Gold enrichment preferentially occurs: </p><ul><li><span>1.</span><span><p>(1) in a 1–2 km longitudinal stretch of the 50–100 m thick conglomeratic interval;</p></span></li><li><span>2.</span><span><p>(2) in massive conglomerates (facies Gm) and then in trough crossbedded conglomerates (facies Gt), and not in trough cross-bedded sandstones (facies St);</p></span></li><li><span>3.</span><span><p>(3) in beds of facies Gm and Gt which have small pebbles and a low proportion of vein quartz pebbles;</p></span></li><li><span>4.</span><span><p>(4) in sections with frequent vertical changes of facies.</p></span></li></ul><p>These correlations are consistent with a placer origin for the gold and should help to identify prospective areas within the Mporokoso Group.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 4","pages":"Pages 595-601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90099-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53877607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Champenois , A.M. Boullier , V. Sautter , L.I. Wright , P. Barbey
{"title":"Tectonometamorphic evolution of the gneissic Kidal assemblage related to the Pan-African thrust tectonics (Adrar des Iforas, Mali)","authors":"M. Champenois , A.M. Boullier , V. Sautter , L.I. Wright , P. Barbey","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90104-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90104-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the central part of the Adrar des Iforas (Mali), the 2 Ba Eburnean granulatic unit has been thrust above a high-grade gneissic unit, the so-called ‘Kidal assemblage’, during an early event of the Pan-African orogeny. The Kidal assemblage can be defined as a tectonic mixing of an Eburnean granulitic basement, its sedimentary cover of Middle to Upper Proterozoic age (quartzites, marbles, basalts and metavolcanics) and various pretectonic rocks: ultrabasic to basic rocks, diorites, tonalites. All these rocks have been deformed during at least four main events and metamorphosed together. Thrusting of the Iforas Granulitic Unit above the Kidal assemblage happened during the first event D1. The movement direction was roughly N–S, as shown by the stretching lineation. Some field criteria indicate a sense of displacement towards the north. The lattice preferred orientation of quartz c- and 〈a〉 axes indicate that the slip was dominantly on prismatic and probably pyramidal planes along an 〈a〉 direction; consequently D1 deformation was achieved at high temperature or low-strain rate. The quartz c- and 〈a〉 axes do not show any constant asymmetry, so they do not indicate a sense of shear. Two metamorphic stages have been found in the Kidal assemblage: the first one is characterized by kyanite in aluminous metasediments and by the occurrence of garnet-clinopyroxene-bearing boundis of basic rocks. The <em>P–T</em> range of this event is located at 700 ± 50°C and around 10 Kb. The second event is a syntectonic high temperature (600–650°C) low pressure (3.5 Kb) stage accompanied by migmatization. Such a tangential deformation in barrowian-type metamorphic conditions and with N–S transport direction is known along the entire Trans-Saharan belt and cannot be related in a simple way to the collision between West African Craton and the mobile belt.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 1","pages":"Pages 19-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90104-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53877654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Bernau , D.P.F. Darbyshire , G. Franz , U. Harms , A. Huth , N. Mansour , P. Pasteels , H. Schandelmeier
{"title":"Petrology, geochemistry and structural development of the Bir Safsaf-Aswan uplift, Southern Egypt","authors":"R. Bernau , D.P.F. Darbyshire , G. Franz , U. Harms , A. Huth , N. Mansour , P. Pasteels , H. Schandelmeier","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90109-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90109-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Bir Safsaf-Aswan uplift is an east-west striking major basement high in SW Egypt. It consists mainly of granitic gneisses intercalated with amphibolites, marbles and calc-silicates. It is intruded by syntectonic S-type granites and late-tectonic I-type granitoids and by alkaline basaltic plugs and different dyke generations. Data on the metamorphic evolution revealed an early high-<em>T</em> (∼800°C) event, followed by amphibolite-migmatite facies and then by greenschist facies conditions. The following preliminary geological evolution is proposed: the East African craton in SW Egypt was formed and metamorphosed under high <em>T</em> conditions in Pre-Pan-African times. The accretion of the Arabian-Nubian shield led to the ckening of the adjacent continental African crust which caused migmatization and formation of S-type granites. Late tectonic uplift resulted in a low-grade metamorphic overprint and in the formation of I-type granites at around 570 Ma. The end of the Pan-African development is documented by the intrusion of igneous dykes at 521 Ma. The Pan-African generated fracture system was frequently reactivated in the Phanerozoic, as indicated by the ages of fracture bound continental volcanic rocks (193 ± 5 Ma; 155 ± 4 Ma; 87−81 Ma).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 1","pages":"Pages 79-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90109-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53877711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geology and mineral resources of West Africa","authors":"Michael Weakes","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90065-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90065-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 2","pages":"Page 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90065-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"98594357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heat flow density measurements in northern Morocco","authors":"A. Rimi, F. Lucazeau","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90041-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90041-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two sets of data are used to estimate heat flow density in Morocco: 36 determinations were made in shallow boreholes (100–500 m) in equilibrium conditions and 44 determinations in oil exploration boreholes (1000–5000 m).</p><p>These two sets of data are apparently consistent and are used to define the gross feature of heat flow in northern Morocco: Anti-Atlas, located at the West African craton boundary, is affected by a low heat flow (40 ± 5 m Wm<sup>−2</sup>) close to the average value obtained in this craton (37 ±8 m Wm<sup>−2</sup>); Mesetas, formed by a paleozoic and mesozoic basement, are characterized by a “normal” heat flow density (around 60 m Wm<sup>−2</sup>); northeastern part of Morocco (Eastern Rif, Middle Atlas and Horst chain) is affected by a higher heat flow density ranging from 80 m Wm<sup>−2</sup> to 110 m Wm<sup>−2</sup>. It is suggested that this anomaly is directly connected with the recent quaternary volcanic activity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 6","pages":"Pages 835-843"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90041-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53876634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of radar imagery to structural and geological studies in the Oban Massif, SE Nigeria","authors":"M.I. Odigi, I.P. Okonny","doi":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90069-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0899-5362(87)90069-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Radar imageries revealed three major geomorphological units and a series of long, short and arcuate lineaments. The different lineament systems seem to delineate blocks containing folded structures. The metamorphosed terrain is easily recognisable as a highly deformed area. Including the metamorphosed rocks, three lithologic units have been recognised and demarcated in the area; consequently a radar-geological map at 1:50,000 scale of area 20,000 km<sup>2</sup> based on interpretation of radar imagery and a brief period of field work has been produced from this study.</p><p>The radar imagery studies have disclosed regional lineaments of tectonic origin, and indicate that an important tectonic episode occurred in the Oban massif and post the Precambrian period.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100749,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983)","volume":"6 3","pages":"Pages 275-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0899-5362(87)90069-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53877178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}