The formation and preservation of cratons—the oldest parts of the continents, comprising
over 60 per cent of the continental landmass—remains an enduring problem. Key to craton …

Tantalum, an important metal for high-technology applications, is recovered from oxide
minerals that are present as minor constituents in rare-metal granites and granitic rare …

We present a new analysis of the lithospheric architecture of Africa, and its evolution from ca.
3.6 Ga to the present. Upper-lithosphere domains, generated or reworked in different time …

A total of 4344 magmatic U-Pb ages in the range 2300 to 800 Ma have been compiled from
the Great Proterozoic Accretionary Orogen along the margin of the Columbia/Nuna …

The extent and nature of the Archaean–Palaeoproterozoic craton of Río de la Plata of
southern South America, a major but poorly understood crustal component in …

In previous literature, the “Kibara belt” has often been portrayed as a Mesoproterozoic belt
trending NE over 1300km across the Central African Congo craton, from the Angola-Zambia …

In this paper, we review the dimensions, geometry and architecture of the components of the
Kalahari Craton and the various positions this important crustal block could have occupied …

The Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian amalgamation of SW Gondwana through the
Brasiliano/Pan-African orogeny is reviewed with emphasis on the role of the Río de la Plata …

The Cape and Karoo basins formed within the continental interior of Gondwana. Subsidence
resulted from the vertical motion of rigid basement blocks and intervening crustal faults …

We here review what is known about the dunefields and fluvial systems of the Kalahari
Basin in terms of geological setting and Quaternary dynamics and set out what has been …