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LITHOS
Volume 102, Issue 3-4, Pages 460-477Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.07.020
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Cameroon; granitoids; Pan-African; shear zone; U-Pb; zircon
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Striking characteristics of the western Neoproterozoic belt of Cameroon (NFBC) are the large volume of granitoids and crustal-scale shear zones. New structural and geochronological data from this area are provided to put constraints on the tectonic evolution of this segment of the belt and to make further correlations between major shear zones exposed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Three different complexes have been identified in the study area: the migmatitic complex of Foumbot (MCF), the metagranitoid complex of Bangwa (BC), and the Batie pluton (BP). The MCF was intruded by the BC, while the BP cuts through the BC. U-Pb zircon dating of metaleucogranite and metagranodiorite of the BC yielded concordant to subconcordant ages of 638 +/- 2 Ma and 637 +/- 5 Ma, respectively. A concordant U-Pb zircon age of 602 +/- 1.4 Ma has been obtained from porphyrogranite of the BR These ages are interpreted as emplacement ages. Continuous deformation from magmatic to solid-state flow along the BP margins and the (sub) parallelism of the steep solid-state foliation in the BP margins with the foliation in the surrounding BC and MFC suggest synkinematic emplacement of the BP along crustal-scale NNE to ENE-trending strike-slip shear zones. Subhorizontal foliations in migmatitic-gneiss xenoliths found in the BC suggest that the major transcurrent motion was preceded by thrusting. The new data confirm previous assumptions that the western NFBC is equivalent to parts of the Borborema province of Brazil. There are geochronological correlations between the studied (meta)granitoids and Brasiliano pre- to syn-transcurrent granitoids of the Borborema province. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
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