The Zambezi River: An Archive of Tectonic Events Linked to the Amalgamation and Disruption of Gondwana and Subsequent Evolution of The African Plate ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Africa's modern Zambezi is proposed as an example of a major extant river system, which archives the tectonic events that assembled and then fragmented a supercontinent. The Zambezi and an earlier Karoo river system, (here designated the ProtoZ...
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Zenodo
2015
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13446816 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13446816 |
| Summary: | (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Africa's modern Zambezi is proposed as an example of a major extant river system, which archives the tectonic events that assembled and then fragmented a supercontinent. The Zambezi and an earlier Karoo river system, (here designated the ProtoZambezi River system), have a recorded geological history spanning approximately 280 million years. Its original headwaters were formed when the End-Neoproterozoic to Ordovician amalgamation of the Gondwana Supercontinent created a central Himalayanscale mountain belt, now called the Trans-Gondwana Mountain Range (at the core of the East Africa-Antarctica-Orogenic Belt). Eroded remnants of these mountains were the source of west-directed Dwyka glacial sediments and Ecca and Upper Karoo, PermoTriassic, rift-controlled lakes and rivers across West Gondwana. The reversed drainage of the Zambezi River started to flow eastwards through the same rift valleys in the Middle Jurassic (at about 165 Ma), as Africa started to ... |
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