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The stratigraphy of a geosynclinal succession in western Sierra Leone, West Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. M. Allen
P. M. Allen
Affiliation:
Overseas and Mineral Surveys, Institute of Geological Sciences, 5 Prince's Gate, London, S. W. 7.
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Summary

The Rokel River Series of Sierra Leone is re-defined, and subdivided into the Rokel River Group and the Taban Formation. The Rokel River Group consists of six formations which represent the development and infilling of an eugeosyncline, and has been mildly metamorphosed and folded at least three times. The Taban Formation contains fluvial sediments deposited after orogenesis.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , February 1968 , pp. 62 - 73
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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