ABSTRACT
In the Jebel Tawiga/Jebel Tageru area of NW Sudan a weathering crust is developed on top of strongly deformed Late Proterzoic mafic metavolcanics and pelitic metasediments belonging to an ophiolitic assemblage of the Jebel Rahib fold-and-thrust belt. The weathering profile with its thickness of up to 25 meters exhibits a typical saprolite-laterite upward sequence, the completely indurated and fractured laterite horizon consisting of varying kaolinite-boehmite-hematite mixtures.
