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Jean-Paul Liégeois
Earth Sciences
Geodynamics and mineral resources
Geodynamics and mineral resources
Publication details
Jessell, M.W. & Liégeois, J.P. 2015. ‘Editorial: 100 years of research on the West African Craton’. Jessell, M.W., Liégeois, J.P. (eds), Journal of African Earth Sciences, special issue : Tectonics, mineralisation and regolith evolution of the West African Craton. Amsterdam : Elsevier. I.F. 1.403.
Article in a scientific Journal / Article in a Journal
The West African Craton extends across 14 countries in western Africa, and consists of two Archean nuclei in the north-western and south-western parts of the craton juxtaposed against an array of Paleoproterozoic domains made up of greenstone belts, sedimentary basins, regions of extensive granitoid-TTG plutons and large shear zones, which are overlain by Neoproterozoic and younger sedimentary basins. The borders of the WAC are largely defined by a combination of surface geology and gravity signatures (Burke and Whiteman, 1973; Roussel and Lesquer, 1991; Ennih and Liegeois, 2008a, b).