Seismogenic fault reactivation in western Central Africa: Insights from regional stress analysis

HMDV Nkodia, T Miyouna, F Kolawole… - Geochemistry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The onshore continental margins of western Central Africa have been hosting potentially
damaging earthquake events for decades; yet, the links between the seismicity, the …

Banded Iron Formations in Congo: A Review

YB Mavoungou, AT Bolarinwa… - Economic and …, 2023 - koreascience.kr
Abstract In the Republic of Congo, Banded iron formations (BIFs) occur in two areas: the
Chaillu Massif and the Ivindo Basement Complex, which are segments of the Archean …

Flower structures in sandstones of the Paleozoic Inkisi Group (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo): evidence for two major strike-slip fault systems and geodynamic …

HMDV Nkodia, T Miyouna, D Delvaux… - South African Journal …, 2020 - journals.co.za
Few studies have reported field descriptions of flower structures associated with strike-slip
faults. This study describes and illustrates flower structures near Brazzaville (Republic of …

An Overview of the Present State of Knowledge in the Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the West Congo Belt in Republic of Congo

VTT Boué, UV Matiaba-Bazika, NL Makamba… - International Journal of …, 2024 - scirp.org
The West Congo Belt (WCB) is one of many Proterozoic orogens considered to be mobile
belts adjacent to the margins of Archean cratons. This orogen underlies the western margin …

[HTML][HTML] New geological insights on the Palaeoproterozoic Sembé-Ouesso Basin in northern Congo-Brazzaville–implications for the Kibaran orogeny, Neoproterozoic …

T Fullgraf, Y Callec, G Badinier, F Boudzoumou… - Journal of African Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Palaeoproterozoic Sembé-Ouesso Basin (SOB) is the northeasternmost of six
foreland subbasins of the Eburnean orogen; it covers an area of about 64,000 km 2 in the …

Garnet chemical zoning: a clue for the tectono-metamorphic history of the Proterozoic Mayombe chain (West Congo Belt), Congo-Brazzaville

V Bouénitéla, M Ballèvre, F Boudzoumou… - Geological …, 2024 - cambridge.org
The Mayombe chain of Congo is part of the West Congo Belt, which belonged to the western
Gondwana supercontinent. It consists of Paleoproterozoic gneisses and schists that are …

[HTML][HTML] New insights on the paleobiology, biostratigraphy and paleogeography of the pre-Sturtian microfossil index taxon Cerebrosphaera

Y Cornet, C François, P Compère, Y Callec… - Precambrian …, 2019 - Elsevier
Important biological and geological events occurred during the early to middle
Neoproterozoic. Among diversifying eukaryotic assemblages, populations of …

New interpretation of the basal Bambuí Group, Sete Lagoas High (Minas Gerais, E Brazil) by sedimentological studies and regional implications for the aftermath of …

FR Adelpomdor, AM Ilambwetsi… - Geologica …, 2020 - repositorio.ufmg.br
Along the preserved southeast border (ie, the Sete Lagoas High) of the Bambuí basin, the
Pedro Leopoldo Member, basal succession of the Sete Lagoas Formation, unconformably …

Cyclicity and sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic uppermost Haut Shiloango-Lukala carbonate ramp system in the Lower Congo region (Democratic …

F Delpomdor, F Kant, L Tack, A Préat - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Cryogenian-Ediacaran, tectonically-and climatically-driven perturbations
created sea level changes. Snowball Earth-type glaciations suggest~ 500–800 m sea level …

[HTML][HTML] Petrology and Geochemistry of Loukounga Metabasites Rocks: Constraining the Geodynamic Context of Neoproterozoic Nemba Complex in the Mayombe …

UVM Bazika, VTT Bouénitéla, NM Lekeba… - Open Journal of …, 2022 - scirp.org
This study focuses on the metabasite rocks of the Nemba Complex of the Mayombe belt, an
African segment of Araçuaï-West Congo Orogen (A-WCO) extending from the southwest of …