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- Title
Structural and microstructural evolution of Etam Shear Zone in the Central African Fold Belt, SW-Cameroon: implication of hydrothermal syn-tectonic quartz vein formation.
- Authors
Sigue, Cyrille; Suh, Cheo Emmanuel; Mbongue, Jean Lavenir Ndema
- Abstract
The Etam Shear Zone is a N to NNE trending strike-slip zone, and it displays a sinistral shearing mylonitic (ductile) zone and a brittle zone. Field observations and microstructural studies reveal that the ductile zone experienced strain partition. Primary minerals (quartz, K-feldspar, Plagioclase, and biotite) in wall rock (granodiorite) are gradually reduced towards the intensively deformed shear zone center. Quartz recrystallization also increases in the same direction. The structural evolution reveals the following: (1) a first phase of deformation D1 underlined by S1 foliation and mylonitic schistosity (Sm). This phase is oriented N10°E to N22°E and is associated with L1 lineation (NNE-SSW, average plunge of 10° NE), F1 fold (fold axis~ S60E), and asymmetric β1 boudins of domino's type; (2) a second phase D2 that develop F2 folding, C2 shearing planes (N60E to N75E and dipping strongly W to NW), and a late D2 brittle event. Microstructures such as recrystallization, sub-grain boundary, myrmekites, and undulose extinction characterize the sub magmatic and post magmatic deformation. Kinematic markers (rotated mineral, shearing planes, and fold vergence) reveal an earlier dextral shearing movement in biotite gneiss followed by sinistral shear sense recorded in mylonites. The mica-chlorite-epidote assemblage defines a greenschist facies in the Etam Shear Zone. Metasomatic reactions (Plagioclase + K-feldspar + water = Quartz + Albite + Epidote + Chlorite) during pervasive alteration of some minerals have probably released silica during deformation that was carried by hydrothermal fluids and precipitated in pull-apart fracture to form hydrothermal syn-kinematic quartz veins.
- Subjects
CAMEROON; SHEAR zones; OROGENIC belts; VEINS (Geology); PLAGIOCLASE; GOLD ores; RECRYSTALLIZATION (Geology); URANIUM-lead dating; QUARTZ
- Publication
Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1866-7511
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12517-023-11438-6