Preface
• The boundaries of the West African craton, with special reference to the basement of the Moroccan metacratonic Anti-Atlas belt, N Ennih & J-P Liégeois
The Palaeoproterozoic terranes from the West African craton and their reworking
• REE patterns, Nd–Sm and U–Pb ages of the metamorphic rocks of the Diagorou–Darbani greenstone belt (Liptako, SW Niger): implication for Birimian (Palaeoproterozoic) crustal genesis, A Soumaila, P Henry, Z Garba & M Rossi
• Two Mesoarchaean terranes in the Reguibat shield of NW Mauritania, R M Key, S C Loughlin, M Gillespie, M Del Rio, M S A Horstwood, Q G Crowley, D P F Darbyshire, P E J Pitfield & P J Henney
• Geological setting of the Guelb Moghrein Fe oxide–Cu–Au–Co mineralization, Akjoujt area, Mauritania, J Kolb, F M Meyer, T Vennemann, R Hoffbauer, A Gerdes & G Sakellaris
• Possible primary sources of diamond in the North African diamondiferous province, M Kahoui, Y Mahdjoub & F V Kaminsky
• Geochronology and metamorphic P–T–X evolution of the Eburnean granulite- facies metapelites of Tidjenouine (Central Hoggar, Algeria): witness of the LATEA metacratonic evolution, A Bendaoud, K Ouzegane, G Godard, J-P Liégeois, J-R Kienast, O Bruguier & A Drareni
• First report of ultrahightemperature sapphirine + spinel + quartz and orthopyroxene + spinel + quartz parageneses discovered in Al–Mg granulites from the Khanfous area (In Ouzzal metacraton, Hoggar, Algeria), Z Adjerid, K Ouzegane, G Godard & J R Kienast
The Pan-African orogeny along the boundaries of the West African craton
• Review of the orogenic belts on the western side of the West African craton: the Bassarides, Rokelides and Mauritanides, M Villeneuve
• Neoproterozoic garnet-glaucophanites and eclogites: new insights for subduction metamorphism of the Gourma fold and thrust belt (eastern Mali), R Caby, F Buscail, D Dembélé, S Diakité, S Sacko & M Bal
• Tectonic significance of carbonatite and ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Pan-African Dahomeyide suture zone, southeastern Ghana, K Attoh & P M Nude
• Mélanges and ophiolites during the Pan-African orogeny: the case of the Bou-Azzer ophiolite suite (Morocco), R Bousquet, R El Mamoun, O Saddiqi, B Goffé, A Möller & A Madi
• Gold mineralization in the Proterozoic Bleida ophiolite, Anti-Atlas, Morocco, A Belkabir, M Jébrak, L Maacha, M R Azizi Samir & A Madi
• Petrology and geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic Siroua granitoids (central Anti-Atlas, Morocco): evolution from subduction related to within-plate magmatism A Touil, A Hafid, J Moutte & A El Boukhari
The late Neoproterozoic–early Palaeozoic extension along the West African craton and the Peri-Gondwanan terranes
• Late Neoproterozoic carbonate productivity in a rifting context: the Adoudou formation and its associated bimodal volcanism onlapping the western Saghro inlier, Morocco, J J Álvaro, M Macouin, H Ezzouhairi, A Charif, N Ait Ayad, M L Ribeiro.& M Ader
• The Cambrian volcano-sedimentary formations of the westernmost High Atlas (Morocco): their place in the geodynamic evolution of the West African Palaeo-Gondwana northern margin, A Pouclet, H Ouazzani & A Fekkak
• The magmatic evolution at the Moroccan outboard of the West African craton between the Late Neoproterozoic and the Early Palaeozoic, H Ezzouhairi, M L Ribeiro, N Ait Ayad, M E Moreira, A Charif, J M F Ramos, D P S De Oliveira, & C Coke
• Neoproterozoic–early Palaeozoic tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian v. West African connections, R D Nance, J B Murphy, R A Strachan, J D Keppie, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, J Fernández-Suárez, C Quesada, U Linnemann, R D’Lemos & S A Pisarevsky
• Zircon U–Pb geochronology of paragneisses and biotite granites from the SW Iberian Massif (Portugal): evidence for a palaeogeographical link between the Ossa–Morena Ediacaran basins and the West African craton, M F Pereira, M Chichorro, I S Williams, & J B Silva
• Petrogenesis and geodynamic evolution of the Late Neoproterozoic post-collisional felsic magmatism in NE Afyon area, western central Turkey,S Gürsu & M C Goncuoglu
The Variscan orogeny along the West African craton
• The Anti-Atlas chain (Morocco): the southern margin of the Variscan belt along the edge of the West African craton, A Soulaimani & M Burkhard
• Devonian extension of the Pan-African crust north of the West African craton, and its bearing on the Variscan foreland deformation: evidence from eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco), L Baidder, Y Raddi, M Tahiri & A Michard
• The ‘Rich’ group of the Drâa Basin (Lower Devonian, Anti-Atlas, Morocco): an integrated sedimentary and tectonic approach, H Ouanaimi.& N Lazreq
• Orogen-parallel tectonic transport: transpression and strain partitioning in the Mauritanides of NE Senegal, M Dabo, M Gueye, P M Ngom & M Diagne
The Cenozoic situation along the boundaries of West African craton
• Deep structure of the southeastern margin of the West African craton from seismic reflection data, offshore Ghana, K Attoh & L Brown
• A complex multi-chamber magmatic system beneath a late Cenozoic volcanic field: evidence from CSDs and thermobarometry of clinopyroxene from a single nephelinite flow (Djbel Saghro, Morocco) J Berger, N Ennih, J-P Liégeois, C Nkono, J-C Mercier, D & Demaiffe
• Index