Dr. Daniel Kwayisi

Contact info dkwayisi@ug.edu.gh

Research Interest

1. Orogenic belts and crustal evolution 

2. Granitoid magmatism and mineralization

3. Ophiolites

4. Evolution of passive margins

Publications

  • Amponsah, P. O., Kwayisi, D., Awunyo, E. K., Sapah, M. S., Sakyi, P. A., Su, B. X., Lu, Y. & Nude, P. M (2023). New evidence for crustal reworking and juvenile arc‐magmatism during the Palaeoproterozoic Eburnean events in the Suhum Basin, South‐east Ghana. Geological Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4790
  • Kwayisi, D., Lehmann, J., & Elburg, M. (2022b). Provenance and depositional setting of the Buem structural unit (Ghana): Implications for the paleogeographic reconstruction of the West African and Amazonian cratons in Rodinia. Gondwana Research, 109, 183-204.
  • Kwayisi, D., Elburg, M., & Lehmann, J. (2022a). Preserved ancient oceanic lithosphere within the Buem structural unit at the eastern margin of the west African craton. Lithos, 106585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106585. 
  • Sakyi, P. A., Su, B-X., Manu, J., Kwayisi D., Anani, C.Y., Alemayehu, M., Malaviarachchi S. P.K., Nude, P. M., & Su B-C. (2020). Origin and tectonic significance of the metavolcanic rocks and mafic enclaves from the Palaeoproterozoic Birimian Terrane, SE West African Craton, Ghana. Geological Magazine, 157(8), 1349-1366. https://doi.org/10.1017/S001675681900150X.
  • Kwayisi, D., Lehmann, J., & Elburg, M. (2020). The architecture of the Buem Structural Unit: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Pan-African Dahomeyide Orogen, West Africa. Precambrian Research, 338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105568.
  • Sakyi, P. A., Manu, J., Ben-Xun Su, Kwayisi D., Nude, P. M., & Dampare, S. B. (2019) Geochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic evidence for the composition of the Palaeoproterozoic crust of the West African craton in Ghana. Geological Journal, 54 (6), 3940-3957. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3387.