Metacraton: nature, genesis and behavior

JP Liégeois, MG Abdelsalam, N Ennih, A Ouabadi - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, we show with examples that cratons involved in intercontinental collisions in a
lower plate position are often affected by orogenic events, leading to the transformation of …

An integrated approach to unravel the structural controls on groundwater potentialities in hyper-arid regions using satellite and land-based geophysics: a case study in …

A Ibrahim, KS Gemail, S Bedair, SA Saada, M Koch… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
Groundwater exploration is the most promising way to overcome water scarcity in hyper-arid
regions around the world. Due to the scarcity of hydrogeological information in these …

Tesseroids: Forward-modeling gravitational fields in spherical coordinates

L Uieda, VCF Barbosa, C Braitenberg - Geophysics, 2016 - library.seg.org
We have developed the open-source software Tesseroids, a set of command-line programs
to perform forward modeling of gravitational fields in spherical coordinates. The software is …

The African Plate: A history of oceanic crust accretion and subduction since the Jurassic

C Gaina, TH Torsvik, DJJ van Hinsbergen, S Medvedev… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a model for the Jurassic to Present evolution of plate boundaries and oceanic
crust of the African plate based on updated interpretation of magnetic, gravity and other …

Geochronology and correlations in the Central African Fold Belt along the northern edge of the Congo Craton: New insights from U-Pb dating of zircons from …

SF Toteu, M de Wit, J Penaye, K Drost, JA Tait… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central African Fold Belt (CAFB) is the least well-known of all major Pan
African belts. Here, we present new geochronologic work carried out in several critical areas …

Structure and LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb dating of syntectonic plutons emplaced in the Pan-African Banyo-Tcholliré shear zone (central north Cameroon)

EN Nomo, R Tchameni, O Vanderhaeghe, F Sun… - Journal of African Earth …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Tcholliré massif, in central north Cameroon, consists of elongated granite plutons that
crop out along the Pan-African Tcholliré-Banyo shear zone (TBSZ), a potential suture zone …

Crustal structure and Moho topography of the southern part (18° S–25° S) of Central Indian Ridge using high-resolution EIGEN6C4 global gravity model data

SD Sahoo, SK Pal - Geo-Marine Letters, 2021 - Springer
The sophisticated tectonic setting and obscure structural heterogeneity over the Central
Indian Ridge (CIR) make it a challenging target for geophysical study. The present study …

Delineation of structural features over a part of the Bay of Bengal using total and balanced horizontal derivative techniques

S Narayan, SD Sahoo, SK Pal, U Kumar… - Geocarto …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The present study deals with classical problem of edge detection in potential field data over
complex tectonic regime for both shallower and deeper sources, simultaneously. Balanced …

GOCE satellite derived gravity and gravity gradient corrected for topographic effect in the South Central Andes region

O Álvarez, M Gimenez, C Braitenberg… - Geophysical Journal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Global gravity field models, derived from satellite measurements integrated with terrestrial
observations, provide a model of the Earth's gravity field with high spatial resolution and …

The crustal configuration of the West and Central African Rift System from gravity and seismic data analysis

FEK Ghomsi, R Tenzer, E Njinju… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The West and Central African Rift System (WCARS) is the only stable
continental geological structure on Earth that is formed by large‐scale topographic massifs …