On the dual nature of the Mozambique Belt, Mozambique to Kenya

✍ Scribed by Patrice Pinna

• Book ID: 103931956
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 532 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-343X
• DOI: 10.1016/0899-5362(95)00077-7

✦ Synopsis

The present features of the Mozambique belt are interpreted in terms of the Lurian (~111000 Ma: crustal growth and major tectonism) and Pan-African (ca 600 Ma: intracontinental shear belts) orogenies. ResumC -La disposition actuelle de la chaine Mozambicaine est interpret& comme le r&ultat des orogen&es lurienne (env. loo0 Ma: accr&ion crustale et tectogenese majeure) et panafricaine (env. 600 Ma: chakes de cisaillement intracontinentales) Key, R. M., Charsley, T. J., Hackmann, B. D., Wilkinson, A. F. and Rundle, C. C. 1989. Superimposed Upper Proterozoic collision-controlled orogenies in the Mozambique erogenic belt of Kenya. Precambrian Research 44,197~225.