Abstract The Wilson Cycle theory that oceans close and reopen along the former suture is a
fundamental concept in plate tectonics. It was named after J. Tuzo Wilson who recognised …

▪ Abstract Neither geologists nor biologists have a definition that is capable of classifying
Madagascar unambiguously as an island or a continent; nor can they incorporate Malagasy …

The concept of 'Gondwana', an ancient Southern Hemisphere supercontinent, is firmly
established in geological and biogeographical models of Earth history. The term Gondwana …

The late Paleozoic to Tertiary stratigraphic record of much of the African plate reflects the
effects of continental rifting and passive margin development. Several short-lived, but …

The tectonics, geography and climate of the Cretaceous world were very different from the
modern world. At the start of the Cretaceous, the supercontinent of Pangaea had just begun …

Abstract The Main Ethiopian and Eastern (Gregory) rifts, sectors of the East African rift
system, overlap in a 300-km-wide system of extensional basins that is more than three times …

A complex history of crustal extension occurred in east and central Africa during the
Mesozoic and early Tertiary. Beginning in the Late Jurassic, this resulted in a large system of …

The Scotia arc is the eastward-closing loop of mountains and locally emergent submarine
ridges extending from the southernmost Andes through the active South Sandwich volcanic …

This paper analyzes the importance of preexisting structure for the evolution of the Cenozoic
Malawi rift, which constitutes the southernmost part of the western branch of the East African …

Abstract The Precambrian of Madagascar is divided into two sectors by the north-west
trending sinistral Ranotsara shear zone, which continues in the Mozambique belt, probably …