Geothermal renewable energy prospects of the African continent using GIS

S Elbarbary, M Abdel Zaher, H Saibi, AR Fowler… - Geothermal …, 2022 - Springer
Geothermal energy potential is identified through the deep investigation of geological,
geothermal, and geophysical information over a small area; however, this task is both …

The fundamental role of the Borborema and Benin–Nigeria provinces of NE Brazil and NW Africa during the development of the South Atlantic Cretaceous Rift system

RMD de Matos, A Krueger, I Norton, K Casey - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Borborema and Benin–Nigeria Provinces are composed of a complex network
of Neoproterozoic mobile belts, and large-scale shear zones. The evolution of the South …

Mesozoic-cenozoic deformation history of Egypt

AR Moustafa - The geology of Egypt, 2020 - Springer
Detailed surface and subsurface structural data indicate that the Mesozoic-Cenozoic
deformation history of Egypt witnessed four main phases of deformation related to the …

Tectonics and landscape of the Central African Plateau and their implications for a propagating Southwestern Rift in Africa

MC Daly, P Green, AB Watts, O Davies… - Geochemistry …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Central African Plateau (CAP) covers a million square kilometers of African
lithosphere absent of recent volcanism and intense seismicity. Treating the CAP erosion …

Seismic hazard assessment of the Kivu rift segment based on a new seismotectonic zonation model (western branch, East African Rift system)

D Delvaux, JL Mulumba, MNS Sebagenzi… - Journal of African Earth …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the frame of the Belgian GeoRisCA multi-risk assessment project focusing on the Kivu and
northern Tanganyika rift region in Central Africa, a new probabilistic seismic hazard …

The Malawi active fault database: An onshore‐offshore database for regional assessment of seismic hazard and tectonic evolution

JN Williams, LNJ Wedmore, CA Scholz… - Geochemistry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We present the Malawi Active Fault Database (MAFD), an open‐access (https://doi.
org/10.5281/zenodo. 5507190) geospatial database of 113 fault traces in Malawi and …

The provenance of Avalonia and its tectonic implications: a critical reappraisal

JB Murphy, RD Nance, L Wu - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian interval is characterized by global-scale
orogenesis, rapid continental growth and profound changes in Earth systems. Orogenic …

Seismogenic fault reactivation in western Central Africa: Insights from regional stress analysis

HMDV Nkodia, T Miyouna, F Kolawole… - Geochemistry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The onshore continental margins of western Central Africa have been hosting potentially
damaging earthquake events for decades; yet, the links between the seismicity, the …

Active tectonics and GPS data analysis of the Maghrebian thrust belt and Africa-Eurasia plate convergence in Tunisia

N Bahrouni, F Masson, M Meghraoui, M Saleh… - Tectonophysics, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Atlas Mountains of Tunisia belong to the seismically active zone of the Africa
(Nubia)-Eurasia plate boundary in the central-western Mediterranean. We study the eastern …

Rifting of the Kalahari Craton through Botswana? New seismic evidence

H Paulssen, T Micallef, DR Bouwman… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Botswana is a country with relatively low seismic activity that experienced an unexpected
Mw 6.5 earthquake on 3 April 2017. Using data from the first countrywide seismic network …