Sandstone petrology and provenance of the Neoproterozoic Voltaian group in the southeastern Voltaian Basin, Ghana

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 83-98

  Anani, Chris ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ghana; Modal analysis; Petrology; Provenance; Sandstone; Voltaian Basin

Indexed keywords

PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE;

GHANA;

EID: 0033208269     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(99)00063-9     Document Type: Article

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