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THE Tectonic Map of Africa is being revised. It is appropriate, therefore, to direct attention to certain conclusions, produced at the second Symposium on African Geology held in March 1965, at Bedford College, London, regarding the status of previously established orogenic belts in the Northern Basement of Uganda.
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HEPWORTH, J., MACDONALD, R. Orogenic Belts of the Northern Uganda Basement. Nature 210, 726–727 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210726a0
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