Faculty of Science

Objectives

The course aims at exposing students to an overview of the Geology of Cameroon, involving exposure to Precambrian, Cretaceous and Quaternary rocks, thus cutting across the three major rock groups – igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.

Contents

Visits to and description of outcrops of rocks at various locations around the South West and Littoral Provinces and beyond with the following geological features:

Pahoehoe and lava flows, pillow lavas, volcanic ash deposits from pyroclastic fall, scoria cones, coastal features and mass – wasting as well as different types of weathering, columnar joints in basalts, Lahar deposits (volcanic mudflows) sedimentary rocks to include shale, siltstone and limestone; crater lakes, tuff deposits from phreatomagmatic activity, stocks and bosses of granites and syenites and exposure of metamorphic rocks – schists, gneisses, slates, migmatites and fault rocks.