The Pan-African belt in central Africa has benefited from the many petrographic, structural,
and geochronological studies in the recent years that have improved our understanding of …

Abstract The Borborema and Benin–Nigeria provinces of NE Brazil and NW Africa,
respectively, are key areas in the amalgamation of West Gondwana by continental collision …

The Eastern Nigeria terrane belongs to the 3000 km-long Trans-Saharan belt which was
formed in the Neoproterozoic, between 750 and 500 Ma by continental collision between the …

Radiometric ages in the Nigerian basement cluster around 3.5, 3.1− 3.0, 2.7− 2.5, 2.1− 1.8
and 0.6 Ga. However, not all these ages correspond to times of crust formation. There are …

Eastern Nigeria experienced high-grade metamorphism during the Pan-African collision
event marked by a pervasive migmatization. Structural evidence demonstrates that anatexis …

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 …

Structural, geochronological, geochemical and mineralization patterns in the Nigeria–
Borborema province of western Africa and NE Brazil reflect a complex Proterozoic evolution …

This paper presents new petrostructural data and a detailed geological map of the Ife-Ilesha
area, a classical schist belt in southwest Nigeria. The overall syn-metamorphic flat-lying …

Zircons extracted from a migmatitic orthogneiss of granodioritic composition from Kabala,
Kaduna area of northern Nigeria, yielded a SHRIMP 207Pb/206Pb zircon age of Ma …

Abstract The Kanawa area, Eastern Nigeria Terrane (ENT), located proximal to Pan-African
shear zone, has U prospects with an average U concentration of~ 0.1 wt%. Samples taken …