Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution

• Published in: Journal of African Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Fritz, H, Abdelsalam, M., Ali, K. A., Bingen, B., Collins, A. S., Fowler, A. R., Ghebreab, W., Hauzenberger, C. A., Johnson, P. R., Kusky, T. M., Macey, P., Muhongo, S., Stern, R. J., VIOLA, GIULIO
• Other Authors: Viola, Giulio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Arabian-Nubian Shield; East African Orogen; Magmatism; Metamorphism; Mozambique Belt; Tectonic; Earth-Surface Processe; Geology; East Antarctica; Nubian; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11585/569745; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2013.06.004

The East African Orogen, extending from southern Israel, Sinai and Jordan in the north to Mozambique and Madagascar in the south, is the world́s largest Neoproterozoic to Cambrian orogenic complex. It comprises a collage of individual oceanic domains and continental fragments between the Archean Sah...