History of the development of the East African Rift System: A series of interpreted maps through time

D Macgregor - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
This review paper presents a series of time reconstruction maps of the 'East African Rift
System'('EARS'), illustrating the progressive development of fault trends, subsidence …

Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting

L Michon, V Famin, X Quidelleur - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Many continental rifts are subjected to volcanism in tandem with rifting, which has raised a
long-standing debate about whether magmatism is the cause or the consequence of plate …

[图书][B] Dipping into the soda lakes of East Africa

M Schagerl, RW Renaut - 2016 - Springer
Saline alkaline lakes are the focus of this book, but how do they form and how do they differ
from freshwater lakes? We provide a brief introduction to soda lakes, their origin and their …

Global Miocene tectonics and the modern world

PE Potter, P Szatmari - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
An amazing congruence of seemingly unrelated, diverse global events began in the Middle
and Upper Miocene and established our modern world. Two global orogenic belts were …

New insights into the crust and lithospheric mantle structure of Africa from elevation, geoid, and thermal analysis

J Globig, M Fernàndez, M Torne… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present new crust and lithosphere thickness maps of the African mainland based on
integrated modeling of elevation and geoid data and thermal analysis. The approach …

The east African rift system

RN Scoon, RN Scoon - Geology of National Parks of central/southern …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The East African Rift System (EARS) is driven by extension and thinning of the
African Plate. Rifting commenced during the Oligocene (at approximately 30 Ma) and has …

The discovery of the Barmer Basin, Rajasthan, India, and its petroleum geology

J Dolson, SD Burley, VR Sunder, V Kothari… - AAPG …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The discovery of oil and gas in the Barmer Basin in northwest India was one of the more
significant global discoveries in the decade 2001–2010. The basin's presence was …

Early structural development of the Okavango rift zone, NW Botswana

BD Kinabo, EA Atekwana, JP Hogan, MP Modisi… - Journal of African Earth …, 2007 - Elsevier
Aeromagnetic and gravity data collected across the Okavango rift zone, northwest Botswana
are used to map the distribution of faults, provide insights into the two-dimensional shallow …

Relevant, practical and connected to the real world: what higher education students say engages them in the curriculum

G O'Neill, A Short - Irish Educational Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The discourse on preparing job-ready graduates has led to calls for more authentic methods
of teaching and learning that allow higher education students to enhance their employability …

Repeat ridge jumps and microcontinent separation: insights from NE Arabian Sea

AA Misra, N Sinha, S Mukherjee - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Microcontinents separate due to ridge jumps associate either asymmetric sea floor
spreading or plume–ridge interactions. India separated from Seychelles at∼ 64 Ma by …