The peralkaline rhyolites (pantellerites) of the Lake Chad. Composition and tectonomagmatic significance

Remnants of rhyolite lava-dome and of alkaline microgranite extrusions emerge, as inselbergs, in the alluvial plain, south of Lake Chad. The peralkaline, arfvedsonite- and acmite-bearing rhyolites are determined as pantellerites. They can be related to a tectonomagmatic stage, dated of the Late Cret...

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Veröffentlicht in:Comptes rendus. Geoscience 2002-01, Vol.334 (12), p.885-891
Hauptverfasser: Pouclet, A, Vicat, J P, Bellion, Y, Doumnang, J C
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Zusammenfassung:Remnants of rhyolite lava-dome and of alkaline microgranite extrusions emerge, as inselbergs, in the alluvial plain, south of Lake Chad. The peralkaline, arfvedsonite- and acmite-bearing rhyolites are determined as pantellerites. They can be related to a tectonomagmatic stage, dated of the Late Cretaceous, of the western central Africa rift system. They may constitute the NNE extension of a N50 degree to 30 degree elongated succession of small alkaline complexes, from the Gulf of Guinea to the North-Cameroon, which initiated the magmatic activity of the Cameroon Line.Original Abstract: Des lambeaux de dome-coulees de rhyolites et des extrusions de microgranites alcalins emergent en inselbergs dans la plaine alluviale au sud du lac Tchad. Les rhyolites, hyperalcalines a arfvedsonite et acmite sont definies comme des pantellerites. Elles peuvent se rapporter a une phase tectonomagmatique, a la fin du Cretace, du systeme des rifts d'Afrique du Centre-Ouest. Elles constitueraient le prolongement NNE d'un chapelet de petits complexes alcalins allant, en direction N30 degree , du golfe de Guinee au Nord-Cameroun et qui correspondent a la phase initiale de l'activite magmatique de la Ligne du Cameroun.
ISSN:1631-0713