Tectonics and Landscape of the Central African Plateau and their Implications for a Propagating Southwestern Rift in Africa

Tectonics and Landscape of the Central African Plateau and their Implications for a Propagating Southwestern Rift in Africa

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 surface as a reference frame for measuring continental deformation reveals an active landscape of normal fault systems and...

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Main Authors: M. C. Daly, P. Green, A. B. Watts, O. Davies, F. Chibesakunda, R. Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-06-01
Series:Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Subjects:
Oligo‐Miocene erosion surface
Central African Plateau formation
rifting and flexure of the plateau
Plio‐Quaternary Southwestern Rift
breaking of the Nubian Plate
convective and flexural processes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008746

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