The African continent is composed of cratonic fragments and orogenic belts that record crucial information about the formation of the Earth. These continental domains have gone through a series of amalgamation and rifting processes with unique characteristics and fingerprints of important geological processes. Therefore, studying African tectonics is crucial to advancing the understanding of plate tectonics and the formation of the Earth. However, many regions in Africa still lack geological, geophysical, and geochemical observations (data gaps), thus hindering the advancement of knowledge about fundamental key driving geological processes on Earth.

This session welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from geological, geophysical, and geochemical studies at both regional and local scales. These include, but not limited to, studies that bring new insights into unexplored regions or make innovative use of global and freely available datasets and models to advance our knowledge about the geology and tectonics of Africa.