[HTML][HTML] Volcanism and tectonics unveiled in the Comoros Archipelago between Africa and Madagascar

I Thinon, A Lemoine, S Leroy… - Comptes …, 2022 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé Des données géophysiques et géologiques ont été acquises lors de la campagne
océanographique SISMAORE (2020–2021). Deux grands champs tectono-volcaniques …

The volcanism of the Comoros archipelago integrated at a regional scale

L Michon - Active Volcanoes of the Southwest Indian Ocean: Piton …, 2016 - Springer
The development of the Comoros archipelago in the Mozambique channel has been
diversely interpreted since the 1970s. The two end-member causes are, on the one hand, a …

Active tectonics of the Alaotra–Ankay Graben System, Madagascar: possible extension of Somalian–African diffusive plate boundary?

TM Kusky, E Toraman, T Raharimahefa… - Gondwana …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Lake Alaotra–Ankay rift valley of Central Madagascar forms a NE–SW oriented
depression filled with Neogene to recent sediments and is part of a more regional post …

Age progressive volcanism in the Comores Archipelago, western Indian Ocean and implications for Somali plate tectonics

CM Emerick, RA Duncan - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1982 - Elsevier
Abstract The Comores Islands together with the Tertiary volcanic province of northern
Madagascar form a sublinear trend of alkali olivine basalt shield volcanoes across the …

The Great Rift Valley of Madagascar: an extension of the Africa–Somali diffusive plate boundary?

TM Kusky, E Toraman, T Raharimahefa - Gondwana Research, 2007 - Elsevier
Madagascar rifted from Gondwana in two stages, starting its separation from the Somali
coast of Africa some 160 million years ago, and following up with a break from India and the …

The geological evolution of Madagascar: an introduction

A Piqué - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 1999 - elibrary.ru
Between eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean, Madagascar was a part of the Gondwana at
the end of the Proterozoic. Its evolution, from the Carboniferous through to the present times …

The tectonic architecture of central Madagascar: implication on the evolution of the East African Orogeny

A Collins, B Windley, A Kröner, I Fitzsimons… - Gondwana …, 2001 - researchgate.net
Many Phanerozoic zones of continental collision (eg the Alpine-Himalayan chain, Variscan
Orogeny) are characterised by a complicated history of early ophiolite obduction, collision of …

Relics of the Mozambique Ocean in the central East African Orogen: evidence from the Vohibory Block of southern Madagascar

N Jöns, V Schenk - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Vohibory Block of south‐western Madagascar is part of the East African
Orogen, the formation of which is related to the assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent. It …

Kinematic evolution of the Morondava rift basin of SW Madagascar––from wrench tectonics to normal extension

H Schandelmeier, F Bremer, HG Holl - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2004 - Elsevier
The evolution of the Karoo Basin system in SW Madagascar (Morondava Basin) may be
considered to be an initial break-up attempt between East-and West-Gondwana in East …

How to identify oceanic crust—Evidence for a complex break-up in the Mozambique Channel, off East Africa

J Klimke, D Franke, C Gaedicke, B Schreckenberger… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
The identification of oceanic crust at rifted margins plays a crucial role in academic research
understanding rifting mechanisms and the architecture of continent–ocean boundaries, and …