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Geology of Africa

 

 

• 23rd Colloquium of African Geology (CAG23) - Theme of Colloquium "Together in Africa for a leading role in geoscience". University of Johannesburg (Auckland Park and Soweto Campuses), Republic of South Africa.
• 23rd Colloquium of African Geology (CAG24)
• A Geological and Geophysical Information System for Eurasia, The Middle East and North Africa
• Cornell University's Middle East and North Africa Project
• Cretaceous-Paleogene basins of northeast Africa
• East African Geo-Science Network
• East African Rift Valley
• Evolution of the East African and related orogens, and the assembly of Gondwana
• Geo Africa Sciences Society
• Geologie Westafrikas und Nigeria (Überblick)
• Geology and Total Petroleum Systems of the Gulf of Guinea Province of West Africa
• IGCP Project No.369 - Comparative Evolution of PeriTethyan Rift Basins
• Late Cryogenian-Ediacaran history of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: A review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East African Orogen
• Le Sahara Occidental
• North Africa GeoNet
• Stratiform and vein-type deposits in the Pan-African Orogen in Central and Southern Africa: evidence for multiphase mineralisation
• Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Niger Delta
• Tectonic Evolution of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa
• Volcanoes in the African Region

Angola

• Angola margin: regional tectonic evolution based on integrated analysis of seismic reflection and potential field data and modelling
• Early to middle Miocene foraminifera from the deep-sea Congo Fan, offshore Angola

Egypt

• Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority
• Age constraints on the formation and emplacement of Neoproterozoic ophiolites along the Allaqi-Heiani Suture, South Eastern Desert of Egypt
• Bio- and Sequence Stratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous – Palaeogene rocks, East Bahariya Concession, Western Desert, Egypt
• Complete Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) boundary section at Wadi Nukhul, southwestern Sinai, Egypt: inference from planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy
• Evidence for Early and Mid-Cryogenian glaciation in the Northern Arabian-Nubian Shield (Egypt and western Arabia)
• Geochemistry, Nd isotopes, and U-Pb SHRIMP zircon dating of Neoproterozoic volcanic rocks from the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: New Insights into the ~ 750 Ma Crust-Forming Event
• Integrated biostratigraphy of two Upper Maastrichtian – Palaeocene successions in north-central Sinai, Egypt
• Integrated stratigraphy, palaeontology and facies analysis of the Cenomanian - Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) Galala and Maghra El Hadida formations of the western Wadi Araba, Eastern Desert, Egypt
• Neoproterozoic diamictite in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and Northern Saudi Arabia: Evidence of ~ 750 Ma glaciation in the Arabian-Nubian Shield
• Neoproterozoic serpentinites in the Eastern Desert, Egypt: Fragments of fore-arc mantle
• Origin of a Late Neoproterozoic (605±13 Ma) intrusive carbonate-albitite complex in Southern Sinai, Egypt
• SHRIMP zircon dating and Sm/Nd isotopic investigations of Neoproterozoic granitoids, Eastern Desert, Egypt
• Sr-Nd isotopes and geochemistry of granite- gneiss complexes from the Meatiq and Hafafit domes, Eastern Desert, Egypt: No evidence for pre-Neoproterozoic crust
• Structural evolution of the Neoproterozoic Western Allaqi-Heiani suture, southeastern Egypt
• Subsurface stratigraphy and micropaleontology of the Neogene rocks, Nile Delta, Egypt
• U-Pb SHRIMP dating, Geochemistry, and Sm-Nd isotopic composition of the ~620 Ma Humr Akarim and Humrat Mukbid A-Type granites, Eastern Desert, Egypt
• U-Pb zircon and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic evidence for a juvenile origin of the ~634 Ma El-Shalul Granite, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

• Equatorial Guinea and northern Gabon margins : regional tectonic evolution based on integrated analysis of seismic reflections and potential field data and modeling
  

Ethiopia

• Geological Survey of Ethiopia
• Cryogenian carbonate-slate sequences of the Tambien Group, Northern Ethiopia (I) -pre-"Sturtian" chemostratigraphy and regional correlations
• Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Cryogenian diamictites and Lower Paleozoic sandstone in Ethiopia (Tigrai): age constraints on Neoproterozoic glaciation and crustal evolution of the southern Arabian-Nubian Shield
• Geochemical characteristics of the alkaline basalts and the phonolite –trachyte plugs of the Axum area, northern Ethiopia
• Geology, Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Mount Galili Formation in the southern Afar Depression, Ethiopia
• Geology of Ethiopia
• Geology of Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
• Mesozoic Vertebrates from the Blue Nile Gorge, Ethiopia
• Significance of the Tambien Group (Tigrai, N. Ethiopia) for Snowball Earth Events in the Arabian-Nubian Shield
• Tambien Group, Northern Ethiopia (Tigre)
• U-Pb Zircon geochronology of the eastern part of the Southern Ethiopian Shield

Kenya

• Geology and Mineral Resources of Kenya with special emphasis on minerals around Mombasa

Libya

• Stratigraphic positions of the Wadi Dukhan and Al Uwayliah formations, northeast Libya – a review

Morocco

• Active tectonism in the intracontinental Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco: Synchronous crustal shortening and extension
• Integrated stratigraphy, astronomical dating and proxy records of the Ain el Beida and Loulja sections (NW Morocco). Implications for regional climate change, glacial history and the Messinian Salinity Crisis
• Inversion of synrift normal faults in the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco
• Messinian astrochronology of the Melilla Basin: stepwise restriction of the Mediterranean-Atlantic connection through Morocco
• Palaeomagnetic results from Upper Triassic red-beds and CAMP lavas of the Argana Basin, Morocco

Mozambique

• Geology and geochemistry of the East African Orogen in Northeastern Mozambique
• Revised lithostratigraphy of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic succession of the onshore Rovuma Basin, northern coastal Mozambique

Namibia

• Geology of the southern Warmbad Basin Margin - Tephrostratigraphy, Age, Fossil Record and Sedimentary Environment of Carboniferous-Permian Glacigenic Deposits of the Dwyka Group, Zwartbas, southern Namibia
• Grundzüge der Geologie von Namibien
• Metallogenesis of the Skorpion Non-Sulphide Zinc Deposit, Namibia
• Petrology of the Cretaceous anorogenic Gross Spitzkoppe granite stock, Namibia
• Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and age of the Late Palaeozoic Mesosaurus Inland Sea, SW-Gondwana : new implications from studies on sediments and altered pyroclastic layers of the Dwyka and Ecca Group (lower Karoo Supergroup) in southern Namibia

Nigeria

• Nigerian Geological Survey Agency
• Petrography of a volcanic sequence on the Jos Plateau
• Sedimentological and Depositional Enviroment of the Mid-Maastritchtian Ajali Sandstone, Anambra Basin, Southern Nigeria

South Africa

• Geological Society of South Africa
• Geological Survey of South Africa
• Robben Island Geology
• South African Society for Amateur Palaeontologists
• The First South African Dinosaur
• The Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa

Sudan

• Ministry of Minerals, Republic of Sudan
• Geology and geophysics of the West Nubian Paleolake and the Northern Darfur Megalake
• Outlines of the geology of Sudan (Rigonal)
• Petroleum Geology about Sudan
• Plutonic and Metamorphic Rocks from the Keraf Suture (NE Sudan): A Glimpse of the Tectonic Evolution of the NE margin of W. Gondwana during Neoproterozoic Time
• Sedimentology and reservoir geology of the middle-upper cretaceous strata in unity and heglig fields in SE Muglad Rift Basin, Sudan
• Southern Sudan Geology Map
• Tectonic evolution of the Nakasib suture, Red Sea Hills, Sudan
  

Tanzania

• Larger benthic foraminifera from the Middle Eocene to Oligocene of Tanzania
• Major shifts in calcareous phytoplankton assemblages through the Eocene-Oligocene transition of Tanzania and their implications for low-latitude primary production

Uganda

•  Geological Society of Uganda

Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe Geological Survey
Books about African Geology

	Geological Atlas of Africa This is the first attempt to summarise the geology of Africa by presenting it in an atlas and to synthesise the stratigraphy, tectonics, economic geology, geohazards, geosites and geoscientific education of each country and territory of the continent. Furthermore, the digitised geological maps (on the attached CD-ROM) are correlated and harmonised according to the current stratigraphic time table. The atlas aims to contribute to capacity building in African Earth Sciences and to initiate research and economic opportunities by providing a database of basic geological background information.
	Continental Evolution: The Geology of Morocco: Structure, Stratigraphy, and Tectonics of the Africa-Atlantic-Mediterranean Triple Junction Morocco is one of the most fascinating lands in the world from the point of view of its geological structure and evolution. Our knowledge on the geology of the country has been greatly improved during the last decades, based on numerous seismic profiles and boreholes, seismological analysis of focal mechanisms, seismic tomography, gravimetric/geodetic modelling and, on the other hand, based on a big National Program of Geological Mapping including modern geochemical analyses (trace elements) and reliable isotopic datings (39Ar-40Ar, U-Pb zircon, Sm-Nd, etc). Moreover, a number of academic studies have been performed in relation with the increasing number of Moroccan universities.
	The Formation and Evolution of Africa: A Synopsis of 3.8 Ga of Earth History The African continent preserves a long geological record that covers almost 75% of Earths history. The Pan-African orogeny (c. 600500 Ma) brought together old continental kernels (West Africa, Congo, Kalahari and Tanzania) to form Gondwana and subsequently the supercontinent Pangaea by the late Palaeozoic. The break-up of Pangaea since the Jurassic and Cretaceous, primarily through opening of the Central Atlantic, Indian, and South Atlantic oceans, in combination with the complicated subduction history to the north, gradually shaped the African continent. This volume contains 18 contributions that discuss the geology of Africa from the Archaean to the present day. It celebrates African geology in two ways: first, it highlights multidisciplinary Earth science research by viewing the formation and evolution of Africa from 18 different angles; second, it celebrates the work of Kevin Burke and Lewis Ashwal and portrays the wide range of interests and research angles that have characterized these two scientists throughout their careers, working in Africa, and studying African geology.
	Tropical and sub-tropical West Africa - Marine and continental changes during the Late Quaternary West Africa and the eastern Atlantic stretching from Mauritania in the north to Namibia in the south offer a large latitudinal stretch incorporating nearly symmetrical climatic gradients from the Equator. On the time scale of Quaternary Glacial and Interglacial cycles, today, we possess well-documented and recently published marine sedimentary records showing changes in oceanic and atmospheric circulations and terrestrial fluxes. Deep-sea sediment records contain a wide range of palaeoenvironmental indicators like oxygen and carbon isotopes, alkenones, foraminiferal and other planktonic assemblages over time periods up to and greater than 125,000 years. These are signals of temperature and circulation shifts and allow Interglacial and Glacial comparisons on a regional and inter-hemispheric scale. However, this effort to synthesize the existing knowledge cannot yet aspire to a global modelling. Linking with terrestrial records, albeit spatially patchy and generally lacking a firm chronology, this book points to shorter time scale chronologies from lakes, marshes and river deposits. Diverse and not very wellknown literature, both French and English, is reported here. Lastly, the book records recent knowledge of the first steps of human occupation of frequently hostile environments and considers the environmental impact of ancient and modern societies.
	Collision and Collapse at the Africa-Arabia-Eurasia Subduction Zone The Mediterranean and northern Arabian regions provide a unique natural laboratory to constrain geodynamics associated with arc-continent and continent-continent collision and subsequent orogenic collapse by analysing regional and temporal distributions of the various elements in the geological archive. This book combines thirteen new contributions that highlight timing and distribution of the Cretaceous to Recent evolution of the Calabrian, Carpathian, Aegean and Anatolian segments of the Africa-Arabia-Eurasia subduction zone. These are subdivided into five papers documenting the timing and kinematics of Cretaceous arc-continent collision, and Eocene and Miocene continent-continent collision in Anatolia, with westward extrusion of Anatolia as a result. Eight papers provide an overview and new data from stratigraphy, structure, metamorphism and magmatism, covering the geological consequences of the largely Neogene collapse that characterizes the segments of interest, in response to late stage reorganization of the subduction zone, and the roll-back and break-off of (segments of) the subducting slab.
	African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution This book will be of interest to all concerned with ecosystems dynamics, tropical forests, savannahs, deserts and related development problems of third world countries, especially ecologists, botanists, earth scientists (e.g. Quaternary and recent climate change), regional planners. It will also be valuable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates as a reference for review and overview articles as well as a source of information for new original manuscripts and reviews on the state of the art of long term and Quaternary and Holocene landscape evolution esp. in subsaharan Africa. Palaeobotanists, Palynologists and Quaternarists will equally find this edition useful for their work.
	African Basins Following on from the first 2 books in the series, Sedimentary Basins of the World, which covered Chinese Sedimentary Basins (Volume 1) and South Pacific Sedimentary Basins (Volume 2), comes Volume 3, on African Basins. Africa covers a larger land area than the USA, Europe, India and the ASEAN nations put together. It is rich in natural resources, including oil, gas, coal and nearly every metalliferous mineral. Yet Africa is still one of the least explored continents. This book brings together in one volume, concise reviews of basins previously documented in a vast array of diffuse literature. It also contains some of the first detailed accounts of several basins which have never before been described in such depth. These include the onshore Owambo, Iullemmeden, and Sudanese rift basins, and the offshore basins of southern Africa. The contributions are by authors, and teams of authors, with great knowledge and experience of the basins that they describe. The thirteen chapters are arranged in 3 parts covering North Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa and the book is illustrated by maps, cross-sections, stratigraphic sections and seismic lines. Each chapter includes a comprehensive bibliography and the book concludes with a subject index. For academic geologists researching the geology of Africa, and for industrial geologists seeking natural resources within African sedimentary rocks, this book is an invaluable source of information.
	Geology of North Africa A reference volume on the geology of North Africa, this volume deals with Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. In great detail the geology, tectonic elements, the geology of the Pan-African Shield, the Phanerozoic geological evolution and most of the lithostratigrahpic units of the five countries are described. Moreover, the petroleum geology and petroleum systems are discussed, as well as the history of geological exploration. With the incentive to provide a reference to the geology of North Africa that can be used both by professionals and students, this review work provides a large amount of data, based on more than 2500 references. Written in a clear, straight-forward and structured style, and with many schematic maps, it allows the reader to easily search a topic and find further information with help of the extensive bibliography.
	Geology of Egypt and Libya Treating the geology of Egypt and Libya as one entity, this unquestionably thorough text is divided into six parts covering the following key areas: · the tectonic framework of Egypt and Libya and the main tectonic elements in the two countries · the geology of the Pan-African Shield · the Phanerozoic stratigraphy of Egypt, with a review of the stratigraphic nomenclature · a review of the stratigraphy of Libya · a synthesis of the geological evolution of Egypt and Libya, and how this fits into global tectonics and sea-level fluctuations. · a bibliographic list of more than 2000 references used in the compilation of the book.