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MAP SHOWING GEOLOGY, OIL AND GAS FIELDS, AND GEOLOGIC PROVINCES OF AFRICA
Digitally compiled by Feliks M. Persits, Thomas S. Ahlbrandt, Michele L. Tuttle, Ronald R. Charpentier, Michael E. Brownfield, and Kenneth I. Takahashi

2001

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"Q" "Qe" "Qp" "QT" "T" "Mz" "TK" "K" "Kl" "KJ" "J" "Jl" "JTr" "Tr" "Trl" "MzPz" "KC" "JC"

Quaternary (undivided) Holocene Pleistocene Cenozoic Tertiary Mesozoic Tertiary-Cretaceous Cretaceous Lower Creteceous" Cretaceou-Jurassic Jurassic Lower Jurassic Jurassic-Triassic Triassic Lower Triassic Mesozoic-Paleozoic Cretaceous-Carboniferous Jurassic-Carboniferous

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"Pz" "P" "TrP" "PC" "C" "CD" "D" "Du" "DS" "S" "SO" "OCm" "pCm" "PzpC" "Qv" "Ti" "Mi" "MiPi" "Pi"

Paleozoic Permian Triassic-Permian Permian-Carboniferous Carboniferous Carboniferos-Devonian Devonian Upper/Middle Devonian Devonian-Silurian Silurian Silurian-Ordovician Ordovician-Camrian Precambrian Paleozoic-Precambrian Quaternary Igneous Tertiary Igneous Mesozoic Igneous Mz-Pz Igneous Paleozoic Igneous

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"Kimb" "S-d" "H2O" "Sea" "oth"S_d"

Kimberlites Salt Domes Water (River 0r Lake) Sea Areas outside of African Continent

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