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Shrimp U-Pb zircon age evidence for Paleoproterozoic sedimentation and 2.05 Ga syntectonic plutonism in the Nyong Group, South Western Cameroon: consequences for the Eburnean-Transamazonian belt of NE Brazil and Central Africa

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2006

Authors

Lerouge, Cathérine
Cocherie, Alain
Toteu, Sadrack F
Penaye, Joseph
Milesi, Jean-Pierre
Tchameni, Robert
Nsifa, Emmanuel N.
Fanning, Christopher
Deloule, Etienne

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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

The Nyong Group of the NW corner of the Congo craton is a metasedimentary and metaplutonic rock unit that underwent a high-grade tectono-metamorphic event at ∼2050 Ma associated with charnockite formation. However, the age of the sedimentation and assoc

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Keywords: metamorphism; metasedimentary rock; neodymium isotope; Pan African orogeny; plutonic rock; plutonism; sedimentation; syntectonic sediment; uranium-lead dating; Africa; Brazil; Cameroon; Central Africa; South America; Sub-Saharan Africa; West Africa; Decap Cameroon; Central Africa; Collisional belt; Nyong Group; Paleoproterozoic; SHRIMP dating

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/25065

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of African Earth Sciences

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Journal article

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10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2005.11.010

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2037-12-31

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