Abstract The East African Orogen, extending from southern Israel, Sinai and Jordan in the
north to Mozambique and Madagascar in the south, is the world́s largest Neoproterozoic to …

Phanerozoic primary tin and tungsten deposits and lithium–cesium–tantalum (LCT) type
pegmatites define discontinuous belts that reach several thousand kilometers length …

Abstract Both the Borborema Province of NE Brazil and the geological provinces of NW
Africa (the Trans-Saharan Orogen consisted of the Tuareg and Benino-Nigerian shields and …

The Neoproterozoic global reorganisation that saw the demise of Rodinia and the
amalgamation of Gondwana took place during an incredibly dynamic period of Earth …

Age relations for assembly of Gondwana and Pangea indicate that the timing of collisional
orogenesis between amalgamating continental bodies was synchronous with subduction …

Geothermics is an area of geophysics that studies the thermal state and history of the interior
of the Earth. Solar heat penetrates only into the topmost layers of the Earth's crust. Diurnal …

Abstract Field, petrographic, geophysical, geochronological, elemental and isotopic data
support the identification of distinct components of a Wilson cycle (rift-drift-subduction …

Abstract The Pan-African Damara orogenic system records Gondwana amalgamation
involving serial suturing of the Congo–São Francisco and Río de la Plata cratons (North …

Abstract The South Atlantic Ocean evolved after rupture of the São Francisco–Congo–Rio
de la Plata–Kalahari cratonic landmass and the Late Proterozoic fold belts. Break-up in the …

Four main classes of tectonic entities may be considered for the Ribeira Belt and southwest
African counterparts:(1) cratonic fragments older than 1.8 Ga and their passive margin …