Crustal variability along the rifted/sheared East African margin: a review

Autor: Vormann, Maren, Jokat, Wilfried, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Marine and Polar Research, Am Handelshafen 12, Bremerhaven, Germany, University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, Klagenfurter Strasse 4, Bremen, Germany
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Geo-Marine Letters. 41
ISSN: 1432-1157
0276-0460
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-021-00690-y
Popis: The East African margin between the Somali Basin in the north and the Natal Basin in the south formed as a result of the Jurassic/Cretaceous dispersal of Gondwana. While the initial movements between East and West Gondwana left (oblique) rifted margins behind, the subsequent southward drift of East Gondwana from 157 Ma onwards created a major shear zone, the Davie Fracture Zone (DFZ), along East Africa. To document the structural variability of the DFZ, several deep seismic lines were acquired off northern Mozambique. The profiles clearly indicate the structural changes along the shear zone from an elevated continental block in the south (14°–20°S) to non-elevated basement covered by up to 6-km-thick sediments in the north (9°–13°S). Here, we compile the geological/geophysical knowledge of five profiles along East Africa and interpret them in the context of one of the latest kinematic reconstructions. A pre-rift position of the detached continental sliver of the Davie Ridge between Tanzania/Kenya and southeastern Madagascar fits to this kinematic reconstruction without general changes of the rotation poles.
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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