[HTML][HTML] Toward an integrated model of geological evolution for NE Brazil-NW Africa: The Borborema Province and its connections to the Trans-Saharan (Benino …

FA Caxito, LCML Santos, CE Ganade… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract Both the Borborema Province of NE Brazil and the geological provinces of NW
Africa (the Trans-Saharan Orogen consisted of the Tuareg and Benino-Nigerian shields and …

The relations between Gondwana and the adjacent peripheral Cadomian domain—constrains on the origin, history, and paleogeography of the peripheral domain

Z Garfunkel - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
This work examines the relations between the Cadomian-type peri-Gondwana blocks and
West and North Africa and Arabia (WNA) and the sediments derived therefrom during the …

Neoproterozoic magmatic arc volcanism in the Borborema Province, NE Brazil: possible flare-ups and lulls and implications for western Gondwana assembly

FA Caxito, CF Basto, LCM de Lira Santos, EL Dantas… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract New zircon U-Pb (SHRIMP and LA-ICPMS), elemental and Nd-Sr geochemistry
data on rhyolitic metavolcanic and metavolcaniclastic rocks of NE Brazil characterize …

Geology and hydrocarbon potential of the Nigerian sector of Dahomey Basin

MO Falufosi, OO Osinowo - Journal of Sedimentary Environments, 2021 - Springer
This paper is a review of the geology, tectonics and hydrocarbon potential of the Dahomey
Basin (Nigeria). The basin is sometimes referred to as an embayment as some authors …

Tightening-up NE Brazil and NW Africa connections: New U–Pb/Lu–Hf zircon data of a complete plate tectonic cycle in the Dahomey belt of the West Gondwana …

CE Ganade, UG Cordani, Y Agbossoumounde… - Precambrian …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dahomey belt in Togo and Benin is an important segment of the larger West
Gondwana Orogen. Here, we review the geodynamic evolution of the Dahomey belt and …

Metallogenesis of the Bakoshi-Kundila gold deposit in northern West Nigerian Subshield: Insights from pyrite chemical and sulfur isotopic compositions and zircon U …

SM Elatikpo, H Li, B Liu, WD Zhang - Precambrian Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bakoshi-Kundila gold deposit, located in northern West Nigerian Subshield, in
the southern trans-Saharan Orogenic Belt of West Africa, is a recent discovery and …

Supercontinents and the case for Pannotia

RD Nance, JB Murphy - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Disagreement about the existence of the late Neoproterozoic supercontinent Pannotia
highlights the limitation of defining supercontinents simply on the basis of size, which, for pre …

Timing of the HT/LP transpression in the Neoproterozoic Seridó Belt (Borborema Province, Brazil): constraints from UPb (SHRIMP) geochronology and implications for …

CJ Archanjo, LGF Viegas, MHBM Hollanda… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Seridó schist belt is a classical domain of the Borborema Province (NE Brazil) recording
crustal melting at HT/LP conditions in a tectonic setting dominated by dextral transpressive …

Post-collisional Pan-African granitoids and rare metal pegmatites in western Nigeria: Age, petrogenesis, and the 'pegmatite conundrum'

KM Goodenough, PAJ Lusty, NMW Roberts, RM Key… - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
The Minna area of western Nigeria lies within a Pan-African orogenic belt that extends along
the margin of the West African Craton, from Algeria southwards through Nigeria, Benin and …

New insights on the Ife-Ilesha schist belt using integrated satellite, aeromagnetic and radiometric data

NB Salawu, JO Fatoba, LS Adebiyi, MM Orosun… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The present study combined analysis of satellite, aeromagnetic and radiometric data for
evaluation of structural features within the Ife-Ilesha schist belt. Shuttle Radar Topographic …