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The West African Craton (WAC) is one of the five cratons of the Precambrian basement rock of Africa that make up the African Plate, the others being the...

Southern Africa – Southernmost region of the African continent Vai syllabary – Writing system West African Craton – One of the five cratons of the Precambrian...

(the Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and West African cratons) makes up the modern continent of Africa. These cratons were formed between about 3.6 and 2.0...

are from south to north, the Kalahari Craton, Congo Craton, Tanzania Craton and West African Craton. The cratons were widely separated in the past, but...

overprinted by Pan-African granitoids. The Rokelide Belt passes along the western margin of the Archaean Man Shield in the southern West African Craton. It was intensely...

Archaean cratons, including the Siberian Craton, with its Anabar/Aldan shields in Siberia, and the Slave, Wyoming, Superior, and North Atlantic cratons in North...

fragment West African Craton East Saharan Meta-craton Congo Craton, central southern Africa Bangweulu Block, Zambia Tanzanian Craton Kalahari Craton Kaapvaal...

Tanzania Craton – Old and stable part of the continental lithosphere in central Tanzania (Tanzania) West African Craton – One of the five cratons of the...

an Ediacaran glaciation known from evidence collected from the West African Craton, may be equivalent to the Gaskiers glaciation. Alternatively, it...

in the Eglab shield to the north of the West African craton and in the Man Shield to the south of the craton. There is evidence of three major Eburnean...

Sedimentary basin in West Africa, named after the Taoudenni village in northern Mali. It covers large parts of the West African craton in Mauritania and...

Orogen, an area that was uplifted in an orogenic process when the West African Craton bumped into the Benin-Nigerian Shield. The internal suture zone of...

The São Francisco Craton is an ancient craton in the eastern part of South America. The craton crops out in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Bahia...

is a geological formation lying between the West African craton and the Saharan Metacraton in West Africa. Named after the Tuareg people, it has complex...

East African Orogeny. The Trans-Saharan Belt in West Africa is the result of the collision between the East Saharan Shield and the West African Craton when...

largest producers of gold in Africa, respectively. The Birimian terranes in the southern part of the West African craton are a mix of metamorphosed volcanic...

The Kalahari Craton is a craton, an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, that occupies large portions of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia...

The Kaapvaal Craton (centred on the Limpopo Province in South Africa), along with the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia, are the only remaining areas...

equatorial Middle Africa that lies between the Gulf of Guinea and the African Great Lakes. The basin begins in the highlands of the East African Rift system...

Zone in Spain and Portugal;[citation needed] the West African Craton in Morocco; or the Amazonian Craton. Meguma was, nevertheless, part of Gondwana during...