Contrasted continental rifting via plume-craton interaction: Applications to Central East African Rift
The East African Rift system (EARS) provides a unique system with the juxtaposition of two contrasting yet simultaneously formed rift branches, the eastern, magma-rich, and the western, magma-poor, on either sides of the old thick Tanzanian craton embedded in a younger lithosphere. Data on the pre-r...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-03-01
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Series: | Geoscience Frontiers |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987115001280 |