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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Pan African plate tectonics and its repercussions on the crust of northeast Africa

Alfred Kröner

subject

African PlatePaleontologyPlate tectonicsTectonicsContinental collisionPeriod (geology)General Earth and Planetary SciencesCrustSedimentologyStructural geologyGeomorphologyGeology

description

Pan African belts of the African mainland and the Arabian-Nubian Shield exhibit evolutionary features which are either compatible with intracontinental ensialic development or with plate margin and Wilson cycle tectonics during the time period ∼ 1100–500 Ma ago.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01820807