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Provenance of clastic sediments: A case study from Cameroon, Central Africa

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The provenance of clastic sediments in stream beds, river terraces, rivers, swamps, lakes and beaches from different geological settings was investigated based on their compositional and geochemical variations. The geochemistry data of 622 sediment samples from 22 sites in the Cameroon were compiled to infer the provenance. The results suggest that, their mineralogy is dominated by quartz, low amount of feldspars, clay minerals, heavy minerals, ferric minerals, and rock fragments. The SiO2/Al2O3 ratio indicate that the sediments of Cameroonian region are mostly rich in quartz and clay-minerals. The enrichment of K2O/Na2O ratio implies plagioclase disintegration as K-feldspar during weathering and/or K-reintroduction in the system during diagenesis. The sediments are rich in light rare earth elements (LREE) and classified as shale, Fe-shale, Fe -sand, wacke, arkose, litharenite, sublitharenite, and quartzarenite. The sediments are composed of detritus derived from felsic igneous rocks, which correspond to the geology of the source areas. Weathering indices such as chemical index of alteration (CIA), chemical index of weathering (CIW), plagioclase index of alteration (PIA) and, A-CN-K (A=Al2O3, CN=CaO* + Na2O, K=K2O) plot indicated that the source rocks are subjected to low, moderate and intense weathering.Copyright and COPY; 2023, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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hal-04198477 , version 1 (08-09-2023)

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Victorine Ambassa Bela, Armel Zacharie Ekoa Bessa, John S. Armstrong-Altrin, Francis Aonsi Kamani, Estelle Diane Biami Nya, et al.. Provenance of clastic sediments: A case study from Cameroon, Central Africa. Solid Earth Sciences, 2023, 8 (2), pp.105-122. ⟨10.1016/j.sesci.2023.03.002⟩. ⟨hal-04198477⟩
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