Zambia — Zambian, adj., n. /zam bee euh/, n. a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 9,349,975; 288,130 sq. mi.… … Universalium
Gondwana — (IPAEng|ɡɒnˈdwɑːnə [OED] , originally Gondwanaland) was a southern supercontinent that existed about 500 to 200 Ma ago.Fact|date=September 2008 Gondwana included most of the landmasses in today s southern hemisphere, including Antarctica, South… … Wikipedia
Congo craton — Approximate location of Mesoproterozoic (older than 1.3 Ga) cratons in South America and Africa. The Congo craton, covered by the Palaeozoic to recent Congo basin, is an ancient Precambrian craton that with four others (the Kaapvaal,… … Wikipedia
Irumide Belt — The Irumide Belt is a Mesoproterozoic terrane of deformed basement and folded supracrustals, which occurs along the southern margin of an Archaean/Palaeoproterozoic unit called the Bangweulu Block in Zambia.The Irumide Belt comprises deformed… … Wikipedia
Muva — The Muva is a term coined by E.H. Ackermann (1950)[1] for a folded supracrustal shallow water succession of quartzites and pelites in the Irumide Belt of Zambia. The Muva was first described by A. Gray (1930) [2] The sequence is interpreted as a… … Wikipedia
Mporokoso Group — The Mporokoso Group is the name given to a sedimentary succession of fluvial, lacustrine and aeolian sandstones and minor siltstones occurring on the Bangweulu Block of northern Zambia. The succession is likely to be largely over 1.8 billion… … Wikipedia
List of shields and cratons — List of shields= *African Shield AKA Ethiopian Shield *Amazonian Shield of central South America *The Angaran Shield of West Siberia *Arabian Nubian Shield *(Western) Australian Shield *Baltic Shield of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe *Canadian… … Wikipedia
Kraton — Tafeln (rosa) und Schilde (orange) der Erde Als Kraton (griech. κρατος kratos – Kraft) bezeichnet man sehr alte Festlandskerne von Kontinentalplatten. Im Unterschied zu den alten Kratonen bestehen die großen Kontinentalplatten auch aus jüngeren,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Urkraton — Dieser Artikel erläutert den geologischen Begriff Kraton. Für andere Bedeutungen, siehe Kraton (Begriffsklärung). Tafeln (rosa) und Schilde (orange) der Erde Als Kraton (griech. κρατος kratos Kraft) bezeichnet man sehr alte Festlandskerne von… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Malagasy Orogeny — is the name given to the Ediacaran to Cambrian orogeny that resulted as India collided with the already amalgamated African continent that consisted of Azania and the Congo Tanzania Bangweulu Block.[1] The orogeny affects the parts of the East… … Wikipedia
