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 …

Archaean crustal evolution in West Africa: A new synthesis of the Archaean geology in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast

H Rollinson - Precambrian Research, 2016 - Elsevier
A new synthesis of the geology and geochronology of the little-known Archaean rocks in
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast is presented in order to better understand the …

[HTML][HTML] Petrogenesis, P–T–t path, and tectonic significance of high-pressure mafic granulites from the Jiaobei terrane, North China Craton

P Liu, F Liu, C Liu, F Wang, J Liu, H Yang, J Cai… - Precambrian …, 2013 - Elsevier
High-pressure (HP) mafic granulites in the Jiaobei terrane are composed predominantly of
garnet mafic granulites, garnet–hypersthene granulites, and garnet amphibolites, and they …

New insights into the crustal growth of the Paleoproterozoic margin of the Archean Kéména-Man domain, West African craton (Guinea): Implications for gold mineral …

A Eglinger, N Thébaud, A Zeh, J Davis, J Miller… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Baoulé-Mossi Paleoproterozoic domain on the West African Craton is known
for its world-class orogenic gold deposits formed during the Eburnean orogeny between ca …

Petrological and geochronological constraints on lower crust exhumation during Paleoproterozoic (Eburnean) orogeny, NW Ghana, West African Craton

S Block, J Ganne, L Baratoux, A Zeh… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
New petrological and geochronological data are presented on high‐grade ortho‐and
paragneisses from northwestern Ghana, forming part of the Paleoproterozoic (2.25–2.00 Ga) …

Lower crust exhumation during Paleoproterozoic (Eburnean) orogeny, NW Ghana, West African Craton: interplay of coeval contractional deformation and extensional …

S Block, M Jessell, L Ailleres, L Baratoux… - Precambrian …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present new litho-structural and metamorphic maps of the Paleoproterozoic (2.25–2.00
Ga) West African Craton in northern Ghana, based on the interpretation of field observations …

Paleoproterozoic juvenile crust formation and stabilisation in the south-eastern West African Craton (Ghana); new insights from U-Pb-Hf zircon data and geochemistry

S Block, L Baratoux, A Zeh, O Laurent, O Bruguier… - Precambrian …, 2016 - Elsevier
The crust of the Paleoproterozoic West African Craton in northern Ghana is dominantly
made of Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite (TTG) suites, low-K to high-K calc-alkaline …

Two phases of granulite facies metamorphism during the Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic in the East Hebei, North China Craton: Records from mafic granulites

C Yang, C Wei - Precambrian Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Archean cratons are commonly reworked during the late Paleoproterozoic orogeny, which
may result in multi-phase granulite facies metamorphism in many domains. The East Hebei …

The geochronological evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Baoulé-Mossi domain of the southern West African Craton

LA Parra-Avila, AIS Kemp, ML Fiorentini… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
Generation and emplacement of felsic magmas in the Paleoproterozoic Baoulé-Mossi
domain, West African Craton does not match the apparent peaks of global crust generation …

Ordovician eclogites from the Chinese Beishan: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the southern Altaids

JF Qu, WJ Xiao, BF Windley, CM Han… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous lenses of eclogite occur in a belt of augen orthogneisses in the Gubaoquan area
in the southern Beishan orogen, an eastern extension of the Tianshan orogen. With detailed …