User:Hulalogo/West and Central African Rift System

Formation
The West and Central Africa Rift System formed from the Early Cretaceous separation of Africa and South America. This rifting almost tore apart the African continent but instead formed a complex system of extensional, wrench and pull-apart basins. Such basins can be found from Nigeria and Cameroon on the Atlantic, east into Chad and the Central African Republic, through Sudan to Kenya on the Indian Ocean and north of Lake Chad extending into southern Algeria.

There were five major tectonic phases that formed the WCARS :

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 * The Pan African Crustal consolidation 750-550 Ma
 * Paleozoic-Jurassic platform development 550-130 Ma
 * Early Cretaceous rift 130-98 Ma; Late Cretaceous rift 98-75 Ma
 * Maastrichtian-Paleogene rift and emergence 75-30 Ma
 * Neogene-Recent emergence 30-0 Ma