The TanzaniaCraton is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere in central Tanzania. Some of the rocks are over 3 billion years old. The Tanzania...
of the continental lithosphere in central Tanzania (Tanzania) West African Craton – One of the five cratons of the Precambrian basement rock of Africa...
African Craton East Saharan Meta-craton Congo Craton, central southern Africa Bangweulu Block, Zambia TanzanianCraton Kalahari Craton Kaapvaal Craton, South...
The Dharwar Craton is an Archean continental crust craton formed between 3.6-2.5 billion years ago (Ga), which is located in southern India and considered...
Igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rock forms the Archean TanzaniaCraton, which is surrounded by the Proterozoic Ubendian belt, Mozambique Belt...
Congo Craton, covered by the Palaeozoic-to-recent Congo Basin, is an ancient Precambrian craton that with four others (the Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and...
capable of reproducing the lateral asymmetry of the EAR around the Tanzaniacraton. Numerical modeling of plume-induced continental break-up shows two...
years ago. The cratons are from south to north, the Kalahari Craton, Congo Craton, TanzaniaCraton and West African Craton. The cratons were widely separated...
anticlockwise. Its boundaries are close to those of the mainly Archaean TanzaniaCraton, with the two arms of the rift system having propagated along the surrounding...
Earth in shallow warm tidal pool zones (to 1.5 Gyr). TanzaniaCraton forms. c. 2,940 Ma – Yilgarn Craton of western Australia forms by the accretion of a...
African Plate, the others being the Kalahari craton, Congo craton, Saharan Metacraton and TanzaniaCraton. Cratons themselves are tectonically inactive, but...
composed of upper amphibolite-grade gneisses, reworked rocks from the Tanzaniacraton and Usagaran Belt, emplaced between 2,970 and 2,648 million years ago...
the two arms of the East African Rift and on the northern limits of TanzaniaCraton. Kampala has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger...
African Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Tanzania Zambia The first inhabitants of the Congo Basin area were believed to be...
resulted from convergence of the Congo Craton to the north with the Kalahari, Bangweulu, Tanzania and West-Nilian cratons to the south. The segments include...
middle of the Tanzaniacraton, away from other Tanzanian volcanoes. There have been prior episodes of kimberlitic volcanism in the craton, however. The...
eastern Africa. It passes through the Mozambique Belt east of the TanzaniaCraton. Meert 2003, Fig. 10, p. 19 Stern 1994, pp. 320–321, 324 McWilliams...
these rocks. The TanzanianCraton has many similarities to other globally-significant gold-producing cratons such as the Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia...
formed between 1.4Ga and 0.9Ga. The belt is between the Congo Craton and the TanzaniaCraton. The concession lies in a shear zone that trends from northwest...
to 445 Ma) the area was an embayment sloping down from the West African craton into the Tethys Ocean. It became a closed basin in the Late Carboniferous...
southern Kenya and 8 million years ago in northern Tanzania. When rifting reached the TanzanianCraton, the rift split into the eastern Gregory Rift and...
associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies. The name comes from the green hue imparted...
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