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Regional Geology of Africa

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Sunday W. Petters
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 40)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Chapter 1 Introduction

    Pages 1-7

  3. Chapter 2 The Precambrian of Africa: An Introduction

    Pages 8-20

  4. Chapter 3 The Archean

    Pages 21-112

  5. Chapter 4 Early Proterozoic Cratonic Basins and Mobile Belts

    Pages 113-219

  6. Chapter 5 The Mid-Proterozoic Kibaran Belts

    Pages 220-253

  7. Chapter 6 Late Proterozoic-Early Plaeozoic Pan-African Mobile Belts

    Pages 254-420

  8. Chapter 7 Precambrian Glaciation and Fossil Record

    Pages 421-438

  9. Chapter 8 Paleozoic Sedimentary Basins in Africa

    Pages 439-531

  10. Chapter 9 Mesozoic-Cenozoic Basins in Africa

    Pages 532-621

  11. Chapter 10 Phanerozoic Interplate Magmatism in Africa

    Pages 622-642

  12. Chapter 11 The Quaternary in Africa

    Pages 643-684

  13. Back Matter

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About this book

This balanced and comprehensive overview of geology, tectonics, and mineral resources of Africa presents multifarious facets of Archean to Quaternary geology, including aspects of plate tectonics evolution and geological history of the Earth's oldest continent. Assembled data on igneous and metamorphic petrology, geochemistry, structures and tectonics, stratigraphy, historical geology, geomorphology, geophysics, mineral deposits and petroleum geology provide a unique textbook for lecturers, students and researchers in the named fields.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Regional Geology of Africa

  • Editors: Sunday W. Petters

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020577

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-54528-6Published: 23 October 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-38440-3Published: 23 November 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0317

  • Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 722

  • Topics: Geology, Mineral Resources, Geography, general

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