The Lufilian Arc (or Lufilian Belt) is part of a system of orogenic belts in southern Africa formed during the Pan-African orogeny, a stage in the formation of the Gondwana supercontinent.
It extends across eastern Angola, the Katanga Province of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and the northwest of Zambia.[1]
The arc is about 800 kilometres (500 mi) long.[2] It has global economic importance owing to its rich deposits of copper and cobalt.[1]
27°28′00″E / 11.666667°S 27.466667°E / -11.666667; 27.466667 The LufilianArc (or Lufilian Belt) is part of a system of orogenic belts in southern Africa...
Zambia and Congo D.R. is a 500 million year old mountain chain, the LufilianArc, which formed when two large pieces of continental crust, the Kalahari...
between the Congo Craton and the Kalahari Craton, which also includes the LufilianArc and the Damaran Belt. The eastern margin of the belt interacts with the...
ago during the Pan-African orogeny. It lies in the inner part of the Lufilianarc. Today, the south-western extension of the massif lies under the Kafue...
One of the most extensive outcrops of whiteschist occurs within the LufilianArc - Zambezi Belt orogen. This northwest-southeast trending zone extends...
slates, quartzites and limestones from the Katanga sediments of the inner LufilianArc. To the north and south of the massif the soil covers Karroo sediments...
East Africa. The largest concentration of copper found in Africa is the LufilianArc. It is an eight hundred kilometer crescent shaped belt, which extends...
extension zone in the Neoproterozoic, during the Damara-Lufilian-Zambezi orogeny. The LufilianArc separates the Congo Craton from the Kalahari Craton and...
bordered on the west by the Kundelungu Plateau, on the southwest by the LufilianArc, on the southeast by the Kibaran Irumide Belt, and on the northeast by...
years old that extends ENE-WSW across Zambia. In Zambia, it separates the Lufilian Belt to the northwest from the Zambezi Belt to the southeast. It is associated...
Mporokoso Group Hook granite massif Mwembeshi Shear Zone Zambezi Belt LufilianArc Schlüter, Thomas (2008). Geological Atlas of Africa. Springer. p. 270...
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