PAN-AFRICAN SCAPOLITE-BEARING ROCKS FROM CAMEROON - EVIDENCE FOR AN EVAPORITIC SEDIMENTATION ON THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE CONGO CRATON

Authors
NZENTI JP TCHOUA F
Citation
Jp. Nzenti et F. Tchoua, PAN-AFRICAN SCAPOLITE-BEARING ROCKS FROM CAMEROON - EVIDENCE FOR AN EVAPORITIC SEDIMENTATION ON THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE CONGO CRATON, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 323(4), 1996, pp. 289-295
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
323
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
289 - 295
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1996)323:4<289:PSRFC->2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Petrological and geochemical studies of scapolite-bearing from the Yao unde area (Cameroon), show that they originate from older evaporitic o r saline sediments recrystallized under granulite-facies conditions du ring the Pan-African orogeny. These older evaporitic sediments suggest a pre-Pan-African epicontinental sedimentation on the northern margin of the Congo craton.