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Erosion mode and history of Eastern Adamaoua landscapes (Cameroon): Superimposed lateritic weathering of granites and basalts

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Landscapes of eastern Adamaoua highlands have been shaped by successive weathering and erosion processes of Pan-African crystalline rocks and Neogene volcanics cover. Basalts have outpoured through major inherited structural discontinuities mostly in shallow incisions of lateritic pediplains previously shaped on the granitic basement. That has resulted in formation of a singular composite lateritic weathering profile on basalt superimposed to a truncated profile composed of mottled clays and saprolite on granite. The composite profile studied here is little evolved, mostly kaolinised on granite while basalt is weakly to moderately lateritised owing to differences in silica and iron oxide contents of the two contrasted parent rocks. During lateritic weathering, Cu, Ni, and Co are enriched in profile on granite but depleted on basalt, while Zr/Ti is relatively constant. Behavior and fractionation of REE are comparable except higher Eu* and Ce* anomaly on granite profile than on weathered basalt, owing to parent minerals differences, mostly feldspars in granite versus plagioclase and Fe-Mg minerals in basalt. The contrast in Eu* is also linked to differences in the Index Of Laterization (IOL) in weathered horizons of the two parent rocks. Beyond quite classical litho-dependent geochemical differences in the composite profile, persistence of per-humid climate and good drainage over Neogene have sustained rock-weathering and local surface erosion processes upon volcanic outpours and their contact surface with pediplains formed on Pan-African granitoids of Adamaoua highland.
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hal-04050321 , version 1 (29-03-2023)

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Mathieu Nouazi Momo, Anicet Beauvais, Gatien Romuald Kenfack Nguemo, Ethel Nkongho Ashukem, Edima Roland Yana, et al.. Erosion mode and history of Eastern Adamaoua landscapes (Cameroon): Superimposed lateritic weathering of granites and basalts. CATENA, 2023, 226, pp.107071. ⟨10.1016/j.catena.2023.107071⟩. ⟨hal-04050321⟩
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