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The geology of Africa is varied and complex, and gives rise to the wide variety of landscapes found across the continent. The African continent rests over two main plates. The African Plate , accounting for the whole of north Africa, and the Somali Plate , which accounts for the eastern side of mid and southern Africa. [ 1 ]
A simplified geological map of the outcrops of Karoo Supergroup rocks in Southern Africa. The Ecca Group is represented by the orange key on the map. The Ecca Group is the second of the main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup of geological strata in southern Africa .
The Stormberg Group is one of the four geological groups that comprises the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa. It is the uppermost geological group representing the final phase of preserved sedimentation of the Karoo Basin. The Stormberg Group rocks are considered to range between Lower Triassic to Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) in age.
A simplified geological map of the outcrops of Karoo Supergroup rocks in Southern Africa. The Drakensberg Group is represented by the blue key on the map. The Drakensberg Group is a geological group named after the Drakensberg mountain range where in its uppermost sections the rocks are found.
The geology of South Sudan is founded on Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks, that cover 40 percent of the country's surface and underlie other rock units. The region was affected by the Pan-African orogeny in the Neoproterozoic and extensional tectonics in the Mesozoic that deposited very thick oil-bearing sedimentary sequences in rift ...
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A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
Borg, G (1995), "Metallogenesis of Neoproterozoic basins in Namibia and Botswana" (PDF), Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 10: 109– 119 Kukulus, Matthias (2004), A quantitative approach to the evolution of the central Walvis Basin offshore NW-Namibia: structure, mass balancing, and hydrocarbon potential (PhD thesis) , Julius ...