1.Objective Nigeria lies between the West African Craton and the Congo Craton,south of the Tuareg Shield(Ogunmola JK et al.,2015).The Nasarawa pegmatite field mainly comprises of the Precambrian Basement Complex(inclu...1.Objective Nigeria lies between the West African Craton and the Congo Craton,south of the Tuareg Shield(Ogunmola JK et al.,2015).The Nasarawa pegmatite field mainly comprises of the Precambrian Basement Complex(including Archean-Proterozoic migmatite,gneiss,schists and Pan-African “Older Granites”),Mesozoic alkaline ring complexes(“Younger Granites”) and sedimentary basins(Yang QD et al.,2023;Fig.1a).“Older Granites” are part of the Pan-African mobile belt;“Younger Granites” has significant peralkaline characteristics.“Younger Granites” has a wide distribution in the north-central region of Nigeria,including areas such as Kano,Jos-Bauchi,Mada,and Nasarawa,and the emplacement age gradually decreases from north to south from 213 Ma(Dutse complex) to 141 Ma(Afu complex)(Amuda AK et al.,2021).展开更多
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文摘1.Objective Nigeria lies between the West African Craton and the Congo Craton,south of the Tuareg Shield(Ogunmola JK et al.,2015).The Nasarawa pegmatite field mainly comprises of the Precambrian Basement Complex(including Archean-Proterozoic migmatite,gneiss,schists and Pan-African “Older Granites”),Mesozoic alkaline ring complexes(“Younger Granites”) and sedimentary basins(Yang QD et al.,2023;Fig.1a).“Older Granites” are part of the Pan-African mobile belt;“Younger Granites” has significant peralkaline characteristics.“Younger Granites” has a wide distribution in the north-central region of Nigeria,including areas such as Kano,Jos-Bauchi,Mada,and Nasarawa,and the emplacement age gradually decreases from north to south from 213 Ma(Dutse complex) to 141 Ma(Afu complex)(Amuda AK et al.,2021).
