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Journal articles on the topic "Craton Ouest Africain"
Caen-Vachette, Michelle. "Le craton ouest-africain et le bouclier guyanais: un seul craton au Protérozoïque inférieur?" Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East) 7, no. 2 (January 1988): 479–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0899-5362(88)90092-9.
Full textBoulanger, Bruno, and Georges Millot. "La distribution des bauxites sur le craton ouest-africain. Distribution of bauxites on the West African Craton." Sciences Géologiques. Bulletin 41, no. 1 (1988): 113–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/sgeol.1988.1785.
Full textVilleneuve, Michel, Abdelkrim El Archi, and Juste Nzamba. "Les chaînes de la marge occidentale du Craton Ouest-Africain, modèles géodynamiques." Comptes Rendus Geoscience 342, no. 1 (January 2010): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2009.12.002.
Full textAuvray, B., J. P. Burg, Ch Caruba, R. Dars, and K. Lo. "L'Amsaga (Mauritanie), fragment Archéen du Craton Ouest-Africain: observations et hypothèses nouvelles." Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East) 14, no. 2 (February 1992): 183–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0899-5362(92)90095-t.
Full textWenmega, U., and P. Tempier. "Pétrologie d'un complexe gabbroïque différencié dans le sillon du Boussouma (Burkina-Faso-Craton Ouest Africain)." Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East) 9, no. 1 (January 1989): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0899-5362(89)90013-4.
Full textVilleneuve, M. "Structure et evolution des bassins du Panafricain II dans la partie occidentale du craton ouest africain." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France VI, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 155–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.vi.1.155.
Full textLefort, Jean-Pierre, Tahar Aı̈fa, and Robert Bourrouilh. "Évidences paléomagnétiques et paléontologiques en faveur d'une position antipodale du craton Ouest-Africain et de la Chine du Nord : conséquences paléogéographiques." Comptes Rendus Geoscience 336, no. 2 (February 2004): 159–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2003.11.003.
Full textBouougri, El Hafid, and Ali Saquaque. "Organisation stratigraphique et structure de la marge Anti-Atlasique du craton Ouest-Africain au sud du Siroua (Néoprotérozoïque, Anti-Atlas central, Maroc)." Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 330, no. 11 (June 2000): 753–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1251-8050(00)00232-9.
Full textAffaton, Pascal, Patrick Gaviglio, and André Pharisat. "Réactivation du craton ouest-africain au Panafricain : paléocontraintes déduites de la fracturation des grès néoprotérozoïques de Karey Gorou (Niger, Afrique de l’Ouest)." Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 331, no. 9 (November 2000): 609–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1251-8050(00)01445-2.
Full textEl Aouli, El Hassan, Dominique Gasquet, and Moha Ikenne. "Le magmatisme basique de la boutonniere d'Igherm (Anti-Atlas occidental, Maroc); un jalon des distensions neoproterozoiques sur la bordure nord du craton ouest-africain." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 172, no. 3 (May 1, 2001): 309–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/172.3.309.
Full textDissertations / Theses on the topic "Craton Ouest Africain"
Leprêtre, Rémi. "Evolution phanérozoïque du Craton Ouest Africain et de ses bordures Nord et Ouest." Thesis, Paris 11, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA112057/document.
Full textThe dynamic evolution of cratonic domains remains enigmatic as they are usually considered as stable through geological times. In this work, we unraveled the evolution of one of the largest cratonic area, the West African Craton (WAC), and its north and west boundaries (Anti-Atlas and Atlantic passive margin, respectively), through low-temperature thermochronology (apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He thermochronology) and structural geology. The WAC was studied since its boundaries witnessed many different geological settings (platform, distal foreland, passive margin) during the Phanerozoic, making it a good candidate to evaluate the various driving forces acting on the craton.First, after a continuous Paleozoic subsidence, the craton records the most important cooling event between Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, postdating the onset of the Central Atlantic Ocean spreading. This event is unrelated to the sole passive margin in itself and affected both the craton (up to 800 km inland) and the mobile boundary in the north (Anti-Atlas and High Atlas). It represents kilometer-scale erosion that led to the deposition of thick detrital formations, the red beds, across the whole Saharan platform. This event is not characterized by shortening and is better explained through a mantle-related thermal anomaly during this exhumation. The thermal hypothesis explains the subsequent thermal subsidence undergone by the craton and its north boundary during the Aptian-Albian and the early stages of the Late Cretaceous.Second, from Late Cretaceous onward, dominant cooling trend has imprinted the thermal histories of the studied region, coevally with the onset of the Africa/Europe convergence.The High Atlas belt in Morocco is an accurate witness of the deformations occurring during Cenozoic times. We determined the precise tectonic schedule in the southern foreland of the belt and compared this evolution with the cratonic one. We show that the first Eocene tectonic event echoes to a major craton-scale deformation and results probably from a significant geodynamic change in the convergence zone. The Pliocene-Quaternary phase, well known at the North African scale, is only recorded in the Atlas belt, but might be too recent to have significantly imprinted the thermochronological record inside the craton. Finally, another uplift specific to the Moroccan Atlas Belt during Early to Middle Miocene led to the emplacement of tectonic nappes. This event is not recorded by LTT on the craton and may be restricted to its mobile boundary.This work demonstrates that, despite the lack of Mesozoic-Cenozoic sediment record that may advocate for a stable geological history, the West African Craton suffered significant epeirogenies during this period. Deep seated processes as well as stress transmission prove to be good candidates to account for these cratonic motions, although further work is needed to unravel the exact contribution of these various processes
Block, Sylvain. "Evolution géodynamique du craton Ouest Africain au nord du Ghana." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU30055/document.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the Paleoproterozoic geological evolution of the West African Craton in northern Ghana. New lithological, metamorphic and structural regional maps are built from the interpretation of field and airborne geophysical data. The crust in northern Ghana comprises greenstone belts gneissic terranes, and granitoids. The latter have a calc-alkaline affinity, or are analogue to Archean TTGs, and formed between 2.21 and 2.11 Ga. Lu-Hf isotope analyses show that the magmas are juvenile and derived from a source extracted from the mantle at 2.45-2.30 Ga. The Eburnean metamorphic record of northern Ghana reflects a diversity of thermal regimes. Metamorphic relics record conditions that correspond to a cold apparent geothermal gradient (BT-HP, ~15°C/km). They are overprinted by amphibolite- to high-P granulite-facies metamorphism (MP-MT, 20°C/km) starting at 2145 Ma, followed by another metamorphic phase in the amphibolite facies (25-30°C/km) between 2125 and 2105 Ma. The metamorphic evolution is interpreted to reflect the interplay between crustal thickening and gravitational flow of the orogeny. We suggest that a major magmatic event started at 2.45 Ga and produced fragments of juvenile crust, that formed the protolith of the West African Craton's crust. Northern Ghana may represent a suture zone between two distinct cratonic fragments that collided. Its geological record shares some similarities with modern orogenic belts, although it is not strictly identical. The Paleoproterozoic geodynamic settings may be unique in the history of the Earth, and represent a transitional regime in its secular evolution, between archaic geodynamics and modern plate tectonics
Mcfarlane, Helen. "Evolution géodynamique et tectonique de la ceinture de roches vertes paléoprotérozoïque de Sefwi, craton Ouest-africain (Ghana)." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU30079/document.
Full textThis thesis investigates the Palaeoproterozoic crust of the West African Craton in southwest Ghana, providing insight into its controversial geodynamic and tectonic evolution. Rocks of the study area comprise greenschist- to amphibolite facies, mafic to felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, high-grade paragneisses and low-grade volcano-sedimentary packages, all of which are extensively intruded by multiple generations of granitoids. New lithological, metamorphic and structural maps are constructed using integrated field mapping and interpretation of regional airborne geophysical datasets. This approach is used to constrain the deformation history of the sparsely exposed rocks of the NE- to NNE-striking Sefwi Greenstone Belt and the adjacent volcano-sedimentary domains deformed during the Eburnean Orogeny (2150-2070 Ma). Combined geochemical and geochronological analysis of the magmatic suites of the Sefwi Greenstone Belt reveal calc-alkaline, volcanic arc affinities, as well as a striking similarity to Neoarchean TTGs that require diverse magma sources and petrogenetic processes. Rare inherited zircon cores from the Palaeoproterozoic magmatic suite yield ages of ca. 2250 to 2270 Ma, with granitoid emplacement ages ranging between ca. 2189 and 2081 Ma. Zircon Lu-Hf analysis reveals consistently positive eHf(t) values and two-stage crustal model ages between 2650 and 2250 Ma, indicative of a radiogenic proto-crust and short crustal residence times. The magmatic evolution reveals the coeval generation of sodic, high-silica TTGs derived from partial melting of low-K mafic sources and dioritic magmas generated in a metasomatised, LILE-enriched mantle wedge at ca. 2155 Ma. Subsequent emplacement of high-K quartz monzonites at ca. 2136 Ma supports the interaction of mantle-derived magmas and remelting of existing TTGs. The final stage of magmatism is characterised by the emplacement of two-mica-granites and leucogranites along the NW margin of the Sefwi Greenstone Belt between ca. 2092 and 2081 Ma, interpreted as a terminal collisional event during the Eburnean Orogeny. Eburnean metamorphism and deformation is characterised in the study area by initial high-pressure amphibolite facies metamorphism corresponding with low apparent geothermal gradients (HP-MT, ~15-17°C/km). D1 NNW-SSE shortening generated a ubiquitous bedding-parallel foliation (S1) and ~E-W striking thrust faults, resulting in the burial of supracrustal rocks and crustal thickening. In the high-grade terrane, subsequent amphibolite-granulite facies metamorphism is associated with anatexis. In-situ SHRIMP U-Pb monazite ages at ca. 2073 Ma, hosted within, D2 mineral assemblages, are interpreted as the initial timing of cooling and exhumation, significantly later than paroxysmal metamorphism in NW Ghana and central Ivory Coast (2150-2130 Ma). NNE-striking normal detachments and constrictional deformation structures formed during sinistral ENW-WSW transtension (D2), during which segments of the middle- and lower crust were juxtaposed with low-grade domains. Subsequent E-W directed shortening (D3) caused the dextral re- activation of NE-SW striking shear zones, associated with a localised greenschist facies metamorphic overprint. We propose that the juvenile crust of southwest Ghana was generated in an intra-oceanic arc setting, associated with diverse and intense subduction-related magmatism until subsequent terrane accretion and collision. The north-western margin of the Sefwi Greenstone Belt in interpreted as a suture between the separate arc terranes, diachronously accreted during the Eburnean Orogeny. The Palaeoproterozoic crust of the southern portion of the West African Craton represents a juvenile crustal growth event, recording the unique geodynamic and orogenic processes associated with nascent subduction-related plate tectonics in the early Earth
Le, Mignot Élodie. "Les gisements d'or comme témoins de l'histoire géologique du craton oues-africain : apports de la datation." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0269/document.
Full textThe West African craton is a region enriched in gold deposits and occurrences which are hosted in Paleoproterozoic terrains. These Birimian terrains formed during the Eburnean orogeny which took place between 2.25 and 1.98 Ga. Six gold deposits situated in Burkina Faso and Ghana were studied in order to define a correlation between the different orogenic phases and the mineralizing event(s). The detailed study of the mineralization of the six deposits confirmed the importance of the orogenic gold deposits in the West African craton. Moreover, the existence of a Cu (±Au) porphyry deposit was revealed in the mining district of Gaoua, southwestern Burkina Faso. Our observations highlighted the polyphased character of gold mineralization within nearly all of the studied deposits. Re-Os dating performed on sulfides directly linked to the gold mineralization permitted two main metallogenic periods to be distinguished. The first period was coincident with the D1 and D2 orogenic phases, occurring between 2200 and 2120 Ma, and representing respectively magmatic accretion and transition towards a collisional regime. This period was characterized by low grade disseminated gold mineralization. The second metallogenic period took place during the later brittle deformational phases of the orogeny, ca. 2050-2040 Ma. This secondary mineralization contains visible gold concentrated in veins, breccias and shear zones, and displays higher gold grades. Geochronological evidence for the existence of early gold mineralization could have consequences for the understanding of paleoplacer-type deposits, observed primarily in Ghana. Indeed, this primary mineralization could represent a potential source for gold found in Tarkwaian paleoplacers, which formed after 2130 Ma, and for which the provenance of the gold remains unidentified
Henocque, Olivier. "Dynamiques de l'altération supergène du craton ouest africain : pétrologie et datation des latérites manganésifères de Tambao (Burkina-Faso)." Aix-Marseille 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999AIX30055.
Full textSupergene weathering is one of the most important processes in modifying the Earth's surface Nevertheless, until now, the importance of time in determining the genesis and the evolution of the weathering mantels is poorly nown due to the absence of absolute chronometers. In tropical laterites, the occurrence of K-rich supergene manganese oxides,i. E. Cryptomelanes (k1-2Mn8 O16, nH2 O), allows the theoretical use of the 40 Ar/39 Ar dating method. The aim of this study is to understand and to date the laterite formation episodes in West Africa. The manganiferous lateritic ore of Tambao (Northern Burkina-Faso), well known to be a cryptomelane rich ore where the residual outcrops are representative of the regional lateritic morphogenesis, was studied. Firstly, we verified the range of the method through the study of two cryptomelane concretions carried out at the core of the formation. The quality of the results and their consistency proved that the method provides reliable and significant time control. .
Potrel, Alain. "Evolution tectono-métamorphique d'un segment de croûte continentale archéenne. Exemple de l'Amsaga (R.I. Mauritanie), Dorsale Réguibat (Craton Ouest Africain)." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 1994. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00675134.
Full textPotrel, Alain. "Evolution tectono-métamorphique d'un segment de croûte continentale archéenne : exemple de l'Amsaga (RI Mauritanie), dorsale Réguibat (Craton ouest-africain) /." Rennes : Université de Rennes I, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35732798v.
Full textNaba, Séta. "Propriétés magnétiques et caractères structuraux des granites du Burkina Faso oriental (Craton Ouest Africain, 2,2 - 2,0 Ga) : implications géodynamique." Toulouse 3, 2007. http://thesesups.ups-tlse.fr/814/.
Full textPaleoproterozoic terrains from eastern Burkina Faso are composed of plutons of biotite granites, emplaced in a basement of greenstone belts and gneiss-granitoid rocks with TTG affinities. Magnetic fabrics and microstructures allow us to propose three mechanisms of plutons emplacement. The pluton of Kouaré was the earliest (~2128 ± 6 Ma) to be emplaced in the pre-existing TTG crust that was softened by the presence of the granite and subjected to diapirism combined with a component of regional transcurrent shear. The granites of the alignment of Tenkodogo-Yamba (~2117 Ma) were then emplaced within tension gashes of an already brittle TTG crust subjected to localised dextral shearing. In the same rheological context and likely later, the small pluton of Naneni (not yet dated), which likely derives from the previous granites by fractional crystallization, was likely injected under pressure between the TTG basement and the metavolcanic belts
Wenmenga, Urbain. "Pétrologie des ensembles lithologiques du Protérozoïque inférieur au nord-est de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso-Craton ouest-africain) étude pétrographique, géochimique et géochronologique /." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37601847g.
Full textWenmenga, Urbain. "Petrologie des ensembles lithologiques du proterozoique inferieur au nord-est de ouagadougou : etude petrographique, geochimique et geochronologique (burkina faso, craton ouest africain)." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986CLF21032.
Full textBooks on the topic "Craton Ouest Africain"
Lécorché, Jean-Paul. Les mauritanides face au craton ouest-africain: Structure d'un secteur-clé : la région d'Ijibiten (Est d'Akjoujt, R.I. de Mauritanie). Marseille: Laboratoire de géologie dynamique, Faculté des sciences et techniques-St Jérôme, 1985.
Find full textPonsard, Jean François. La marge du craton ouest-africain du Sénégal à la Sierra Leone: Interprétation géophysique de la chaîne panafricaine et des bassins du protérozoïque à l'actuel. Marseille: Faculté des sciences et techniques de Saint-Jérôme, 1985.
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