BELLON , H.

The southern Guinean terranes belong to the "Rokelide belt" that is located in the southwestern part of the West African craton (Senegal to Liberia). Field investigations and K–Ar and 40Ar–39Ar radiometric analysis performed on samples collected from southern Guinea provide a new interpretation for metamorphic terranes not yet dated. A K–Ar...

Journal of Geology, v. 110, n. 6, p. 627-648 [442], 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/342735

Lithos, v. 66, n. 1-2, p. 77-105, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0024-4937(02)00214-1

The Souttoufide belt is situated between the High-Atlas in the north, the Mauritanides in the south and the West African Craton as well as the Tindouf basin in the east. Thus, this belt is a part of the West African fold belt system which surrounds the West African Craton. Outcrops occur only in three areas, while the rest of the Souttoufide...

Several synthetic papers have been published about the geological structure of the threeWest African fold belts (Rokelides, Bassarides and Mauritanides), which were attached to the western margin of the West African Craton. Owing to the paucity of radiometric ages, some orogens and tectonic events have previously been confused and little...