Geodynamic evolution of western Gondwana – insights from central Hoggar (Algeria) and the Kaoko Belt (Namibia)
The project will study timing and dynamics of collisional processes in the Tuareg Shield (central Hoggar, Algeria). The data will be used for evaluation of the models of multiple subductions in the Tuareg Shield and for understanding whether the closure of different oceanic domains in this part of West Gondwana was synchronous or not. The results of the project will provide improved picture of Neoproterozoic geodynamic evolution of northern part of the western Gondwana suture. The project will also compare the tectono-metamorphic and structural evolution of the central Hoggar with the evolution of the Kaoko Belt (Namibia), which seems to have occupied similar geotectonic position east of, and above, the subduction system of the
Pharusian–Clymene–Charrua Ocean responsible for evolution of the West Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic.
Principal investigator: Jiří Konopásek