African Basins

✍ Scribed by R.C. Selley (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 372
• Series: Sedimentary Basins of the World 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Following on from the first 2 books in the series, Sedimentary Basins of the World, which covered Chinese Sedimentary Basins (Volume 1) and South Pacific Sedimentary Basins (Volume 2), comes Volume 3, on African Basins.Africa covers a larger land area than the USA, Europe, India and the ASEAN nations put together. It is rich in natural resources, including oil, gas, coal and nearly every metalliferous mineral. Yet Africa is still one of the least explored continents.This book brings together in one volume, concise reviews of basins previously documented in a vast array of diffuse literature. It also contains some of the first detailed accounts of several basins which have never before been described in such depth. These include the onshore Owambo, Iullemmeden, and Sudanese rift basins, and the offshore basins of southern Africa.The contributions are by authors, and teams of authors, with great knowledge and experience of the basins that they describe.The thirteen chapters are arranged in 3 parts covering North Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa and the book is illustrated by maps, cross-sections, stratigraphic sections and seismic lines. Each chapter includes a comprehensive bibliography and the book concludes with a subject index.For academic geologists researching the geology of Africa, and for industrial geologists seeking natural resources within African sedimentary rocks, this book is an invaluable source of information.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Sedimentary basins of the world an introduction to the series
Pages V-VIII
Kenneth J. Hsü

Sedimentary basins of africa introduction and acknowledgements Original Research Article
Pages IX-XI
R.C. Selley

List of contributors
Pages XIII-XIV

Chapter 1 The sedimentary basins of northwest africa: stratigraphy and sedimentation Original Research Article
Pages 3-16
R.C. Selley

Chapter 2 The basins of northwest africa: Structural evolution Original Research Article
Pages 17-26
R.C. Selley

Chapter 3 The sirte basin of libya Original Research Article
Pages 27-37
R.C. Selley

Chapter 4 Sedimentary basins of Egypt: An overview of dynamic stratigraphy Original Research Article
Pages 39-85
Ahmed S. El hawat

Chapter 5 The iullemmeden basin Original Research Article
Pages 89-103
R.T.J. Moody

Chapter 6 Rift Basins of the Sudan Original Research Article
Pages 105-149
Ramsis B. Salama

Chapter 7 The niger delta basin Original Research Article
Pages 151-172
T.J.A. Reijers, S.W. Petters, C.S. Nwajide

Chapter 8 The West African Coastal Basins Original Research Article
Pages 173-186
M.A. Ala, R.C. Selley

Chapter 9 The east african rift basins Original Research Article
Pages 187-209
L.E. Frostick

Chapter 10 The coastal basins of somalia, kenya and tanzania Original Research Article
Pages 211-233
E.I. Mbede, A. Dualeh

Chapter 11 The owambo basin of northern namibia Original Research Article
Pages 237-268
R.McG. Miller

Chapter 12 The foreland karoo basin, south africa Original Research Article
Pages 269-317
M.R. Johnson, C.J. Van Vuuren, J.N.J. Visser, D.I. Cole, H. De V. Wickens, A.D.M. Christie, D.L. Roberts

Chapter 13 Late Mesozoic Sedimentary Basins Off the South Coast of South Africa Original Research Article
Pages 319-376
I.K. Mcmillan, G.I. Brink, D.S. Broad, J.J. Maier

Chapter 14 Puzzling questions in the simple history of a continent Original Research Article
Pages 379-382
Kenneth J. Hsü

Author Index
Pages 383-388

Geographic, Tectonic and Stratigraphic Index
Pages 389-392

Minerals, Petroleum, Rocks and Fossils Index
Pages 393-394