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Kadima, K.E., Delvaux, D., Everaerts, M., Sebagenzi, S.M.N & Lucazeau, F. 2015. ‘Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic sequences of Congo Shield: Comparisons between the Congo and its peripheral basins’. In: de Wit, M.., Guillochau, F. and de Wit, M.C.J. (eds), The Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin. Series ‘Regional Geology Reviews’, chap. 6. Heidelberg : Springer, pp. 97-109. (PR) ISBN: 978-3-642-29481-5. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29482-2_6.
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In the Chap. 6, E. Kadima, D. Delvaux, M. Everaerts, S. Sebagenzi, and
F. Lucazeau focus on these lowermost Neoproterozoic to Cambrian succession beneath the
centre of the Congo Basin and use this to better constrain the early evolution of the Congo Basin.
These authors draw on earlier work of Kadima and reinterpret the old drill core and
seismic data, especially from the two fully cored, deep stratigraphic wells Gilson-1: 4,563 m
and Mbandaka-1: 4,350 m) that appear to terminate in carbonates that contain intriguing
evaporitic-like minerals at the base of the Congo Basin. With this information, they then
correlate the successions with the carbonate-siliciclastic sequences along the peripheral
margins of the Congo Basins (mentioned in the earlier chapters). The main findings of this
work are the recognition of possible major Neoproterozoic (mechanical) rifts that underlie the
overlying, but poorly dated, Phanerozoic cover, which they interpret as thermal subsidence
sequences. This is an important contribution towards unravelling the origin of the Congo
basin.