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The Dahomeyide Orogen: Tectonothermal Evolution and Relationships with the Volta Basin

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The West African Orogens and Circum-Atlantic Correlatives

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Abstract

The Dahomeyide orogen is located along the southeastern margin of the West African craton, and is exposed throughout eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon (Fig. 1). The West African craton has remained tectnically stable since ca. 2000 Ma (Black 1985 a, b; Camil 1984). Western sectors of the craton are characterized by an Archean domain represented by grey gneisses and migmatitic complexes (amphibolite and granulite metamorphic facies), acid to basic granulites and charnockitic complexes, together with subordinate greenstone rocks, supracrustal metasedimentary and metavolcanoclastic rocks and granites. These rocks were affected by orogenic events at ca. 3000 Ma (Leonian) and ca. 2800 Ma (Liberian). Southeasternmost segments of the Archean domain were partially remobilized at ca. 1800 Ma during Eburnean orogenesis. Western sectors of this domain were variably affected by late Proterozoic (Pan-African) orogenic events.

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Affaton, P., Rahaman, M.A., Trompette, R., Sougy, J. (1991). The Dahomeyide Orogen: Tectonothermal Evolution and Relationships with the Volta Basin. In: Dallmeyer, R.D., Lécorché, J.P. (eds) The West African Orogens and Circum-Atlantic Correlatives. IGCP-Project 233. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84153-8_6

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