A gravity model for the lithosphere in western Kenya and northeastern Tanzania
dc.contributor.author | Nyblade, Andrew A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Pollack, Henry N. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-10T15:02:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-10T15:02:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992-10-15 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Nyblade, Andrew A., Pollack, Henry N. (1992/10/15)."A gravity model for the lithosphere in western Kenya and northeastern Tanzania." Tectonophysics 212(3-4): 257-267. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/29787> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V72-48BKD0V-JV/2/006948f24ff83a7cbbeb2a832ee38d4a | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/29787 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present a new gravity model for the lithosphere beneath the Kenya Rift Valley, the Mozambique Belt, and the Tanzania Craton in western Kenya and northeastern Tanzania. The Kenya Rift lies within the eastern branch of the extensive Cenozoic East African Rift System and has developed almost entirely in the Pan-African Mozambique Belt about 50 to 150 km east of the exposed margin of the Archean Tanzania Craton. The gravity field over western Kenya and northeastern Tanzania is characterized by a long-wavelength Bouguer anomaly. We propose that this anomaly has two components: 1. (1) a "rift" signature, deriving from a shallow rift basin, a lower crustal intrusion and a low-density zone in the mantle lithosphere localized beneath the rift axis2. (2) a "suture" signature, arising from a crustal root along the boundary between the Mozambique Belt and Tanzania Craton and higher density crust in the mobile belt above part of the crustal root. Two lines of reasoning support our interpretation: 1. (1) Recent geological studies of the Mozambique Belt in Kenya and Tanzania suggest that it is a continent-continent collision zone, and continent-continent collision zones worldwide commonly exhibit a characteristic gravity anomaly.2. (2) The long-wavelength Bouguer anomaly has at least two minima, one over the craton-mobile belt boundary, and one or more over the rift valley. Corroborative evidence for our interpretation of the gravity field is provided by recent seismic investigations. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | A gravity model for the lithosphere in western Kenya and northeastern Tanzania | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Geology and Earth Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/29787/1/0000126.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(92)90294-G | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Tectonophysics | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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