The Pan-African orogeny was a series of major Neoproterozoic orogenic events (mountain building) which related to the formation of the supercontinents Gondwana and Pannotia about 600 million years ago.[1]
The Mozambique Belt, extending from east Antarctica through East Africa up to the Arabian-Nubian Shield, formed as a suture between plates during the Pan-African orogeny.[2] The Mozambique ocean began closing between Madagascar-India and the Congo-Tanzania craton between 700 and 580 million years ago, with closure between 600 and 500 million years ago.[3]
References [edit]
- ^ Glossary.
- ^ Cutten 2002.
- ^ Grantham, Maboko & Eglington 2003, p. 417-418.
Sources [edit]
- Cutten, Huntly N.C. (October 29, 2002). "THE MOZAMBIQUE BELT, EASTERN AFRICA – TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE MOZAMBIQUE OCEAN AND GONDWANA AMALGAMATION". The Geological Society of America. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
- "Glossary of Plate Tectonic and Paleogeographic Terms" (PDF). Retrieved 2006-04-09. (not available without registration (free))
- Grantham, G.H.; Maboko, M.; Eglington, B.M. (2003). "A review of the evolution of the Mozambique Belt and implications for the amalgamation and dispersal of Rodinia and Gondwana". Proterozoic East Gondwana: supercontinent assembly and breakup. Geological Society. ISBN 1-86239-125-4.
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