Geological Atlas of Africa: With Notes on Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Economic Geology, Geohazards, Geosites and Geoscientific Education of Each CountryT is atlas is intended primarily for anybody who is in-some background for the arrangement of how the terested in basic geology of Africa. Its originality lies atlas was done. T e second chapter is devoted to the in the fact that the regional geology of each African history of geological mapping in Africa, necessary nation or territory is reviewed country-wise by maps for a fuller appreciation of why this work in Africa is and text, a view normally not presented in textbooks worth doing. Chapter 3 provides an executive s- of regional geology. It is my belief, that there has long mary on the stratigraphy and tectonics of Africa as a been a need in universities and geological surveys, whole, i. e. in the context of no political boundaries. both in Africa and in the developed world, for sum- T e main part of the atlas lies in Chapter 4, where in marizing geological maps and an accompanying basic alphabetical order each African country or territory text utilising the enormous fund of knowledge that is presented by a digitized geological overview map has been accumulated since the beginning of geologi- and an accompanying text on its respective strat- th cal research in Africa in the mid-19 century. I hope raphy, tectonics, economic geology, geohazards and that, in part, the present atlas may satisfy this need. geosites. A short list of relevant references is also a- ed. |
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Contents
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Angola | 38 |
Benin | 42 |
Botswana | 46 |
Madagascar | 152 |
Madeira Portugal | 156 |
Malawi | 158 |
Mali | 162 |
Mauritania | 166 |
Mauritius | 170 |
Morocco | 174 |
Mozambique | 180 |
Burkina Faso | 50 |
Burundi | 54 |
Cameroon | 58 |
Canary Islands Spain | 62 |
Cape Verde | 66 |
Central African Republic | 68 |
Chad | 70 |
The Comoros | 74 |
Democratic Republic of Congo DRC | 76 |
Republic of Congo | 84 |
Djibouti | 88 |
Egypt | 92 |
Equatorial Guinea | 98 |
Eritrea | 102 |
Ethiopia | 104 |
Gabon | 110 |
The Gambia | 114 |
Ghana | 116 |
Guinea | 122 |
Guinea Bissau | 126 |
Ivory Coast Cote dIvoire | 128 |
Kenya | 132 |
Lesotho | 140 |
Liberia | 144 |
Libya | 148 |
Namibia | 184 |
Niger | 190 |
Nigeria | 196 |
Reunion France | 202 |
Rwanda | 204 |
São Tomé et Príncipe | 208 |
Senegal | 212 |
Seychelles | 216 |
Sierra Leone | 220 |
Socotra Yemen | 224 |
Somalia | 226 |
South Africa | 230 |
Sudan | 238 |
Swaziland | 242 |
Tanzania | 246 |
Togo | 254 |
Tunisia | 258 |
Uganda | 262 |
Western Sahara under Moroccan administration | 268 |
Zambia | 270 |
Zimbabwe | 274 |
Geographical Index | 283 |
Subject Index | 290 |
Authors Index | 301 |
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Page 15 - All these belts again comprise single volcanic cycles from basal basic lavas up into more felsic pyroclastics. Both bimodal and calc-alkaline volcanic sequences are recognized. Bimodal assemblages are found in the basal parts of younger belts and contain abundant mafic and ultramafic rocks with minor felsic volcanics and cherts and very little andesitic material. Upper volcanics in younger belts have calc-alkaline affinities and vary from ultramafics through andesites to felsic rocks with associated...