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The Boundaries of the West African Craton www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP297
Tectonics of the Western Mediterranean and North Africa www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP262
The Afar Volcanic Province within the East African Rift System www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP259
Deformation of the Continental Crust: The Legacy of Mike Coward www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP272
West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic correlations across the South Atlantic region www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP294
Petroleum Geoscience of the West Africa Margin www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP438
Magmatic Rifting and Active Volcanism www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP420
Why is Africa rifting? http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/420/1/11
Formation of bifurcating chromitite layers of the UG1 in the Bushveld Igneous Complex, an analogy with sand volcanoes http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/161/6/903
Mesozoic evolution of NW Africa: implications for the Central Atlantic Ocean dynamics http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/174/5/817
Insight into the Eastern Margin of Africa from a new tectonic model of the Indian Ocean http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/431/1/299
Towards a better understanding of African topography: a review of passive-source seismic studies of the African crust & upper mantle http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/357/1/343
Gondwana Large Igneous Provinces: plate reconstructions, volcanic basins and sill volumes http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/463/1/17
Magma-dominated rifting in the Afar triple junction http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/420/1#Magma-dominatedriftingintheAfartriplejunction
East African Rift Valley
Artisanal mining training in Africa
Triple Junction: The Red Sea/East Africa
Fossil Evidence of Plate Tectonics