Constraints on provenance, stratigraphic correlation and structural context of the Volta basin, Ghana, from detrital zircon geochronology: An Amazonian connection?

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 212, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 86-95

  Kalsbeek, Feiko ^a   Frei, Dirk ^a   Affaton, Pascal ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Amazonian craton; Correlation; Dahomeyide (Pan African) orogen; Ghana; Grenvillian; Provenance; Volta basin; Zircon U Pb ages

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VOLTA BASIN; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 56549085417     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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