(Interpretation of the Sanaga fault zone through remote sensing ( Cameroon). Its location within the big fault zones of Central Africa and of the northern boundary of the Congolese craton).

Abstract:

Observation of lines and curved structures on the Landsat image no 199-57 has been interpreted as a tectonic lineament that has been called the 'Sanaga fault zone'. Various geological and gravimetric data provide support to this interpretation. This WSW-ENE faulted zone has had a prior dextrial movement, probably during the end of the panafrican orogeny, and a later N-S shortening. In the Central African Republic the formerly described Bozoum-N'dele fault is drifting toward the Sanaga fault zone, thus giving rise to the 'Sanaga-N'dele fault'. The Sanaga-N'dele is the southern and most continuous tectonic lineament of Central Africa, and is expected to be implicated in a dextral movement of the N part of the Mobile Zone, with respect to the S part which remains linked to the Congolese Craton.-English summary

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1986

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