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Stratigraphy and geodynamics of the Mombasa Basin (Kenya) in relation to the genesis of the proto-Indian Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. Rais-Assa
R. Rais-Assa
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Laboratoire de Geologie Dynamique et de Pétrologie de la Surface, U.A. CNRS 132, Faculté des Sciences St-Jérôme, Université d'aix-Marseille III, 13397 Marseille Cedex 13, France
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Abstract

New data obtained from the study of the Kenyan and Tanzanian coastal basins establish a rifting period at the end of the Karoo sedimentation (Upper Triassic/Lower Jurassic), in the northeastern margin of Gondwanaland. The rifting period was followed by an erosive phase and then transgression of a Tethyan sea during the Middle Jurassic. This leads to a modification of the stratigraphic succession of the region and gives new datas about the nature of separation and drifting of Gondwanaland, the genesis of the proto-Indian ocean and the paleoposition of Madagascar

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Geological Magazine , Volume 125 , Issue 2 , March 1988 , pp. 141 - 147
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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