The Congo Basin (French: Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River. The Congo Basin is located in Central Africa, in a region known...

Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America. Many times in its past, Laurentia...

years ago Bangweulu Block – Part of the Congo craton of central Africa (Zambia) Congo Craton – Precambrian craton that with four others makes up the modern...

Congo D.R. is a 500 million year old mountain chain, the Lufilian Arc, which formed when two large pieces of continental crust, the Kalahari craton and...

extraction industries of the Republic of the Congo (French: République du Congo), also referred to as Congo-Brazzaville. The petroleum industry accounted...

Africa instead) Sub-Saharan Africa (AKA Tropical Africa) Central Africa (AKA Congo, Equatorial Africa or Middle Africa) East Africa (AKA Nile) Northeast Africa...

sutures. South Atlantic Ocean seafloor spreading began along the Congo-Sao Francisco Craton around 112 Ma. Following the North Atlantic Igneous Province eruptions...

closes – Mozambique mobile belt develops as a suture between plates on Congo-Tanzania craton c. 660 Ma – As Sturtian glaciers retreat, Cadomian orogeny (660–540...

Ancient string of microcontinents that rifted from Gondwana Congo Craton – Precambrian craton that with four others makes up the modern continent of Africa...

great oil trap. Clay smears in the sediments seal the formations so oil does not escape out. Basinward dipping reflectors Basinward dipping reflectors...

halokinesis. The basin started forming in the Early Cretaceous on top of the Congo Craton as a rift basin. The rift stage of the basin evolution combined with...

as far as Mali, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania. During the Holocene, Niger-Congo speakers independently created pottery in Ounjougou, Mali – the earliest...

(beneath southern Brazil), the vast Amazonia Craton, and the small São Luis Craton and sections of the Congo Craton which form the basement rock of much of...

Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area...

valued at $2.6 billion. Russia, Botswana, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Australia produce over 80% of the world's diamonds. As of 2002, Canada...

The Bangweulu Block is a cratonic unit that forms part of the Congo craton of central Africa. The Bangweulu Block however consists of Palaeoproterozoic...

brown-skinned peoples. Modern Esoteric groups, including the Theosophic Society, do not consider Atlantean society to have been superior or Utopian—they rather...

being problematic for applying a colonial perspective of discovery and not doing justice to either the historic or geographic complexity of the world. It...

thinner than usual, approximately 20 km (12 mi) thick, and consequently, they do not float so high above Earth's mantle as that of most landmasses.[citation...

Australia (Northern and Western Australia) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2005, Russia produced almost one-fifth of the global diamond output...

South Atlantic Ocean. The basin lies between the West African Craton and Congo Craton, and formed about the same time as the Benue Trough. It covers...

Occidental of Mexico. The continental crust forms a stable Mesoproterozoic craton which changes across a broad continental margin and transitional crust into...

Amazonia Arctica Asiamerica Atlantica Avalonia Baltica Chilenia Cimmeria Congo Craton Cuyania East Antarctica Euramerica Kalaharia Kazakhstania Laramidia Laurentia...

quartz. Mali extends over two main geological structures, the West African craton in the west and the Tuareg shield in the southeast, which came together...

belt: Evidence for the Cambrian formation of Gondwana, southeast Amazon craton". Geology. 38 (3): 267–270. doi:10.1130/G30510.1. Heilbron, Monica; De Morisson...

eastern shores of the Baltic Sea and northwestern part of the East European Craton (EEC), between latitudes 55° and 58° N (a small area is north of 58°), and...

the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist group based in eastern Congo with ties to the Islamic State, carried out two suicide bombings near the...

with the Kalahari Craton. The Namaqua Metamorphic Complex consists of metasediments originally eroded from the Congo and Kalahari Cratons. Granitic and metabasic...

Kingdom of Kongo in what is now modern northern Angola and the western Congo. The Kongolese at 40% were the largest of the African ethnic groups represented...

within the mobile belt of Africa, positioned between the Congo Craton and the West Africa Craton. Significant damage and deformations were documented within...