Sands of West Gondwana: An archive of secular magmatism and plate interactions — A case study from the Cambro-Ordovician section of the Tassili Ouan Ahaggar (Algerian Sahara) using U-Pb-LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon ages

https://eprints.ucm.es/25453/1/Nuevo-ABATI%201-s2.0-S0301926810001336-01.pdf

Detrital zircon ages of Neoproterozoic sequences of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas belt

Evolution of the African continental crust as recorded by U–Pb, Lu–Hf and O isotopes in detrital zircons from modern rivers

http://www.sediment.uni-goettingen.de/staff/guido/archive/17_Meinhold_etal_2011_EPSL.pdf

Evidence from detrital zircons for recycling of Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic crust recorded in Paleozoic and Mesozoic sandstones of southern Libya

Gondwanan basement terranes of the Variscan–Appalachian orogen: Baltican, Saharan and West African hafnium isotopic fingerprints in Avalonia, Iberia and the Armorican Terranes

Zircons extracted from a migmatitic orthogneiss of granodioritic composition from Kabala, Kaduna area of northern Nigeria, yielded a SHRIMP 207Pb/206Pb zircon age of \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} \landscape $3571\pm 3$ \end{document} Ma, indicating that Early Archean crust is exposed in the Nigerian basement complex. The Kabala gneisses are the oldest rocks known so far from the West African shield, and indications for rocks of similar age have recently been reported from the Reguibat and Kenema‐Man shields in Wes...

R. T. Pidgeon

Papers

The Oldest Rocks in West Africa: SHRIMP Zircon Age for Early Archean Migmatitic Orthogneiss at Kaduna, Northern Nigeria