Petrostructural and Geochemical Characteristics of the Metamagmatites in the External Zone of the Dahomeyides Belt: Case of the Kantè Serpentinites (Northern Togo) — Oak Academic Publishing
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Petrostructural and Geochemical Characteristics of the Metamagmatites in the External Zone of the Dahomeyides Belt: Case of the Kantè Serpentinites (Northern Togo)
Département de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Département de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo
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Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Dschang, Dschang, Cameroun
1 Département de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo
2 Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
3 Département de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo
4 Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Dschang, Dschang, Cameroun
Thanks to detailed field investigations, microstructural and geochemical analysis and relationship with enclosing rocks, microfabrics, magmatic typology and metamorphic evolution of the Kantè sepentinites have been specified for the first time. The Kantè serpentinites in northern Togo constitute a mega-lens of ultrabasic rocks tectonically intercalated in the sericite chlorite schists of the Atacora structural unit. The brecciated, schitotose or massive rock facies are strongly marked by an S1 schistocity plane superimposed by a flat C shear plane linked to a west vergence thrusting movement. The parageneses that compose the metamagmatites are essentially serpentinous, containing plagioclase, opaque minerals (magnetite, chromite, spinel) and pyroxene porphyroblasts. These microfabrics represent relics of a probable gabbroic protolith. In fact, the geochemical characteristics of the Kantè serpentinites suggest that their magmatic typology is that of komatiites or tholeiitic basalts with oceanic arc affinities. They would have been emplaced in an active margin environment. The retromorphic evolution of the protolith corresponds to the phase of involvement in a major tangential contact during the panafrican tectogenesis.
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