Abstract
The Saras granodioritic massif is one of the Eburnean intrusive plutons of the Mayombe Belt. (South-West Congo, Central Africa) It is crosscut by a system of basic dykes, of diversified composition. Petrographic data and a comparative geochemical study, using incompatible trace elements, shows a tholeiitic transitional affinity, and allow us to suggest that these dykes are continental basaltic suites, from extensive areas. This basic magmatism, scattered in the whole Congo Craton, marks a widespread extensional episode in relation with the formation of subsidence basins or true aulacogens, at about 970 Ma (Pan African).
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