London: Routledge/Taylor Francis Group, 2019. — 321 p. For too long Africa's mineral fortune has been lamented as a resource curse that has led to conflict rather than development for much of the continent. Yet times are changing and the opportunities to bring technical expertise on modern mining alongside appropriate governance mechanisms for social development are becoming...
Springer, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-73784-3. This book describes the interrelationship between the spectacular geology of an area of East Africa that includes a branch of the rift valley, as well as giant freestanding ice-capped mountains and extraordinarily toxic, alkaline lakes, and some of the greatest concentrations of wildlife on Earth. It suggests that geological...
Springer, 2018. — 345 p. — (Regional Geology Reviews). — ISBN: 978-3-319-60863-1. This book summarizes the geological knowledge accumulated on Afar in the last 60 years, demonstrating that it is, and will remain, a real “hot spot” for geological and geophysical research. It provides insights into the Earth processes along diverging plate boundaries, the study of both the...
Struik Nature, 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN: 9781775842941. This stunning depiction of geology in Namibia combines searingly beautiful photography with clear explanations of how the varied landscapes formed. Arranged chronologically (starting 13.8 billion years ago), the chapters each deal with a particular event or process that has resulted in the formation under discussion. These...
Struik Nature, 2017. — 140 p. — ISBN: 9781775842941. This stunning depiction of geology in Namibia combines searingly beautiful photography with clear explanations of how the varied landscapes formed. Arranged chronologically (starting 13.8 billion years ago), the chapters each deal with a particular event or process that has resulted in the formation under discussion. These...
Geological Survey of Finland, Special Paper 55. Espoo, 2014. 387 p. ISBN: 978-952-217-295-2. The geology of Uganda spans more than three billion years. It comprises Archaean lithospheric fragments, welded together, intersected or surrounded by Proterozoic fold belts. These fold belts can be related to the Eburnian (2.20–1.85 Ga), Grenvillean (1.10–0.95 Ga) and Pan-African...
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren – Belgium. 2013. 117 p. In the last few decades, the understanding of the regional geology of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has progressed in a dramatically variable way from place to place as a result of political and economic constraints. Some areas have been the subjects of recent investigations with the help of modern...
Elsevier, 2016. — 622 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809663-5 The Geology of the Canary Islands provides a concise overview of the geology and volcanology of the Canary Islands, along with 27 carefully planned day excursions comprising trips on all of the islands. Each stop includes a description on how to approach a site and where to park with GPS locations provided. The book covers all...
Cham: Springer, 2015. — 343 p. — ISBN: 3319021796. Understanding Ethiopia is a detailed description of Ethiopia’s geological story and enables non-specialist readers to share the author’s thrill at gaining a deeper insight into the processes which produced, and continue to shape, this amazing country. Ethiopia’s spectacular landscapes, ranging from mountains over 4500m high to...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. - 218 p. Books on Geology and Mineral Resources of Nigeria are very few and mostly not accessible in Libraries and Bookshops in Nigeria. This book by Professor Nuhu Obaje is therefore a welcome development and could not have come but at a better time with the renewed interest and activities in the Geology and Mineral Resources of...
Springer-Verlag, 2015. — 417 p. — (Regional Geology Reviews). — ISBN: 978-3-642-29481-5, 978-3-642-29482-2. This book summarizes the geomorphology, geology, geochronology, geophysics and mineral resources of the Congo Basin, one of the world’s most enigmatic and poorly understood major intra-continental sedimentary basins, and its flanking areas of Central Africa. It provides...
Geological Survey of Finland, Special Paper 48. 2008. -321 p., -196 figures, -14 tables and -6 appendices. Pekkala, Yrjö, Lehto, Tapio & Mäkitie, Hannu (eds. ) This publication presents 14 papers on various geological, map production and data management activities conducted by the GTK Consortium within the frame of the World Bank/Nordic Development Fund financed Mineral...