Regional Geology of Africa

ISBN-13: 9783540545286 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 722 str.

Sunday W. Petters

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1 Introduction.- 2 The Precambrian of Africa: An Introduction.- 3 The Archean.- 4 Early Proterozoic Cratonic Basins and Mobile Belts.- 5 The Mid-Proterozoic Kibaran Belts.- 6 Late Proterozoic-Early Plaeozoic Pan-African Mobile Belts.- 7 Precambrian Glaciation and Fossil Record.- 8 Paleozoic Sedimentary Basins in Africa.- 9 Mesozoic-Cenozoic Basins in Africa.- 10 Phanerozoic Interplate Magmatism in Africa.- 11 The Quaternary in Africa.