East African Orogeny

East African Orogeny is the Neoproterozoic orogeny that affects the East African Orogen.[1] The orogeny evolved from an accretionary orogeny involving the amalgamation of arcs and evolved into a collisional orogeny when the Neoproterozoic continent Azania[2] collided with the Congo-Tanzania-Bangweulu Block at ~640 Ma.[3] The orogeny is the earlier of two orogenies that affects the East African Orogen[4] and is followed by the Ediacaran-Cambrian Kuunga Orogeny.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Stern, R. J. (1994) Neoproterozoic (900-550 Ma) Arc Assembly and continental collision in the East African Orogen. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 22, 319-351
  2. ↑ Collins, A.S. and Windley B.F. (2002). The Tectonic Evolution of Central and Northern Madagascar and its place in the Final Assembly of Gondwana. The Journal of Geology, 110: 325-340.
  3. ↑ Collins, A.S. and Pisarevsky S.A. (2005). Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens. Earth Science Reviews. 71: 229-270.
  4. ↑ Meert, J.G. (2003). A synopsis of events related to the assembly of eastern Gondwana, Tectonophysics, Volume 362, pp. 1-40.
  5. ↑ Meert (2003).