xv, 461 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 26 cm
ISBNs
0050017098, 9780050017098
OCLC
ocm00138070, ocm00201633
Includes bibliographies.
William Quarrier Kennedy, an appreciation, by R. M. Shackleton.--The structural framework of Africa, by T. N. Clifford.--Archaean vulcanicity and continental evolution in the Barberton region, Transvaal, by M. J. Viljoen and R. P. Viljoen.--The evolution and structural setting of the Great Dyke, Rhodesia, by R. Bichan.--Volcanic rocks of the Witwatersrand triad, by H. C. M. Whiteside.--The anorthosite of southern Angola: a review of present data, by E. S. W. Simpson.--Igneous activity and mineralisation episodes in the evolution of the Kibaride and Katangide orogenic belts of Central Africa, by L. Cahen.--Orogenic and post-orogenic plutonism in Malawi, by K. Bloomfield.--Mineralogical and geochemical aspects of pegmatites from orogenic belts of equatorial and southern Africa, by O. Von Knorring.--Late Palaeozonic to recent igneous activity in West Africa and its relationship to basement structure, by R. Black and M. Girod.--Tectonics and vulcanism of the Karroo period and their bearing on the postulated fragmentaion of Gondwanaland, by K. G. Cox.--Petrochemical and tectonic relationship of the Malawi carbonatite-alkaline province and the LupataLebombo volcanics, by A. R. Woolley and M. S. Garson.--Vulcanicity and rift tectonics in East Africa, by B. C. King.--Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Afro-Arabian dome, by I. G. Gass.--The evolution of the Tibesti volcanic province, eastern Sahara, by P. M. Vincent.--The structural setting of African kimberlite magmatism, by J. B. Dawson.--Tectonic control of dykes and related irruptive rocks in eastern Africa, by J. R. Vail.--Geochemical variations in African granitic rocks, and their structural implications by, J. M. Rooke.--Convection and magmatism with reference to the African Continent, by P. G. Harris