Magnetic fabrics (AMS) and transpression in the Neoproterozoic basement of Eastern Cameroon (Garga-Sarali area)

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 263-287

  Kankeu, Boniface ^a   Greiling, Reinhard O ^b  

^a Inst Rech Geologiques et Minieres   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMS; Cameroon; Late tectonic granite; Pan African; Sanaga fault; Strike slip shear zones; Transpression

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EMPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FABRIC; MICROSTRUCTURE; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSPRESSION;

CAMEROON;

EID: 33645831968     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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