Rifting Archaean lithosphere: The Eyasi-Manyara-Natron rifts, East Africa

Journal of the Geological Society | November 1, 1997| | Copyright

Abstract: Long (>50 km) normal faults bound one or both sides of narrow basins within the East African Rift System, but the dimensions and internal geometry of individual basins vary along its length. We examine basins in N Tanzania that developed in Archaean and Late Proterozoic (Pan-African) crust, and the relationship of Neogene-Recent faulting and volcanism to pre-existing lithospheric structure. In northern Tanzania the c. 50 km-wide Eastern (Gregory) Rift splays into three seismically active arms. with active extension distributed across a 200 km wide zone. We use new gravity and ...

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