The recognition that Earth history has been punctuated by supercontinents, the assembly and breakup of which have profoundly influenced the evolution of the geosphere …
In considering the geology of Western Gondwana, this text covers: the Pan-African- Brasiliano cratons; the Pan-African-Brasiliano fold belts; and amosaic of Pan-African …
The assembly of the eastern part of Gondwana (eastern Africa, Arabian–Nubian shield (ANS), Seychelles, India, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, East Antarctica and Australia) resulted …
K Burke, JF Dewey - The Journal of Geology, 1973 - journals.uchicago.edu
Continental lithosphere-especially where stationary with respect to mantle plumes-is marked by plume-generated uplifts typically crested by volcanoes that rupture in three rifts at angles …
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Fourth Edition discusses key topics dealing with the evolution and interaction through time of Earth's crust, mantle, core, atmosphere …
The East African Orogen (EAO) is one of Earth's great collision zones, where East and West Gondwana collided to form the supercontinentGreater Gondwana'orPannotia'at the end of …
J Jacobs, CM Fanning, F Henjes-Kunst… - The Journal of …, 1998 - journals.uchicago.edu
The about 500 km long coastal stretch of central Dronning Maud Land (DML), East Antarctica, is critical for understanding both Gondwana and Rodinia assembly. In common …
SM Berhe - Journal of the Geological Society, 1990 - lyellcollection.org
The presence of ophiolite complexes in NE and E Africa has been documented using Landsat, field and geochemical studies. The present work identifies five major ophiolitic …
RB McConnell - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1972 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The active East African Rift System forms a belt of anastomosing faults extending 4,000 km south-southwest from the junction of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to the Zambezi …