[HTML][HTML] Terrane history of the Iapetus Ocean as preserved in the northern Appalachians and western Caledonides

JWF Waldron, PJA McCausland, SM Barr… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Iapetus Ocean was the first ancient ocean to be identified following the
development of plate tectonics; its history has been fundamental in relating orogenesis and …

A geodynamic model for the Paleoproterozoic (ca. 2.27–1.96 Ga) Birimian Orogen of the southern West African Craton–Insights into an evolving accretionary …

M Grenholm, M Jessell, N Thébaud - Earth-science reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents an updated geodynamic model for the 2270–1960 Ma Birimian Orogen
in the southern West African Craton (sWAC), which form part of a large accretionary …

Re–Os geochronology of a Mesoproterozoic sedimentary succession, Taoudeni basin, Mauritania: implications for basin-wide correlations and Re–Os organic-rich …

AD Rooney, D Selby, JP Houzay, PR Renne - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
The exceptionally well-preserved sedimentary rocks of the Taoudeni basin, NW Africa
represent one of the world's most widespread (> 1Mkm2) Proterozoic successions. Hitherto …

Detrital zircon ages of Neoproterozoic sequences of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas belt

J Abati, AM Aghzer, A Gerdes, N Ennih - Precambrian Research, 2010 - Elsevier
Detrital zircon dating from Neoproterozoic successions in the Sirwa inlier of the Anti-Atlas
belt in Morocco confirms that the maximum depositional age of the main stratigraphic groups …

The 1750 Ma magmatic event of the west African craton (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

N Youbi, D Kouyaté, U Söderlund, RE Ernst… - Precambrian …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Precambrian inliers of the Anti Atlas belt located at the southern part of Morocco contain
numerous mafic dyke and sill swarms thought to represent the erosional remnants of …

Application of foreland basin detrital-zircon geochronology to the reconstruction of the southern and central Appalachian orogen

H Park, DL Barbeau Jr, A Rickenbaker… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
We report the U-Pb age distribution of detrital zircons collected from central and southern
Appalachian foreland basin strata, which record changes of sediment provenance in …

[HTML][HTML] The anti-atlas pan-african belt (Morocco): overview and pending questions

A Soulaimani, H Ouanaimi… - Comptes …, 2018 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé Between the High Atlas and the Saharan platform, the Anti-Atlas of Morocco offers
large exposures of Precambrian rocks beneath the moderately folded Paleozoic series …

Late Ediacaran–Cambrian structures and their reactivation during the Variscan and Alpine cycles in the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)

A Soulaimani, A Michard, H Ouanaimi, L Baidder… - Journal of African Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The post-Pan-African evolution of the northern border of the West African Craton is
largely controlled by the remobilisation of Late Neoproterozoic basement faults. The Upper …

Chemostratigraphy of the Late Mesoproterozoic Atar Group, Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania: Muted isotopic variability, facies correlation, and global isotopic trends

LC Kah, JK Bartley, DA Teal - Precambrian Research, 2012 - Elsevier
Sedimentary strata of the Atar/El Mreiti groups, Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania, are
characterized by carbon isotope values that fall largely between− 2.5‰ and+ 4.0‰, and …

Compilation of West African mineral deposits: Spatial distribution and mineral endowment

V Markwitz, KAA Hein, J Miller - Precambrian Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The West African Craton is highly endowed in minerals, and their spatial and
temporal distribution varies from single to multi-phase mineralization events. They are …