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Aïfa T., Lefort, J.P., Drareni, A., 2001. New paleopoles at 1.4-1.9 Ga from dyke swarms of the West African craton: paleomagnetic contribution to the accretionary phase of Rodinia. Gondwana Research, 4(4), 559-560.

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Aïfa T.,  Merabet N., 2021. Rock magnetic study on the Yetti-Eglab intrusions, Sahara: Contribution to the West African Craton geology. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 502, 159–189, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP502-2019-198

Aisabokhae, J., Osazuwa, I., 2021. Radiometric mapping and spectral based classification of rocks using remote sensing data analysis: The Precambrian basement complex, NW Nigeria. Remote Sensing Applications. Society and Environment, 21, 100447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100447

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Akame, J.M., Owona, S., Hublet, G., Debaille, V., 2020. Archean tectonics in the sangmelima granite-greenstone terrains, Ntem Complex (NW Congo craton), southern Cameroon. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 168, 103872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103872

Akame, J.M., Oliveira, E.P., Poujol, M., Hublet, G., Debaille, V., 2020. LA–ICP–MS zircon UPb dating, LuHf, SmNd geochronology and tectonic setting of the Mesoarchean mafic and felsic magmatic rocks in the Sangmelima granite-greenstone terrane, Ntem Complex (South Cameroon). Lithos, 372–373, 105702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105702

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Amponsah, P.O., Salvi, S., Didier, D., Baratoux, L., Siebenaller, L., Jessell, M.W., Nude, P.M., Gyawu, E.A., 2016. Multistage gold mineralization in the Wa-Lawra greenstone belt, NW Ghana; The Bepkong deposit, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 120, 220-237. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.05.005

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