Crustal exhumation and indications for Snowball Earth in the East African Orogen: North Ethiopia and East Eritrea

Precambrian Research

Volumn 123, Issue 2-4, 2003, Pages 187-201

  Beyth, M ^a   Avigad, D ^b   Wetzel, H U ^c   Matthews, A ^b   Berhe, S M ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d Ministry of Energy and Mines   (Eritrea)

Author keywords

East African Orogen; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Exhumation; Extensional tectonics; Low angle fault; Neoproterozoic; Orogenic collapse; Remote sensing; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

EARLY EARTH; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PRECAMBRIAN; REMOTE SENSING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; CHRONOLOGY; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; GEOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; REVIEW; ROCK; SEDIMENT;

(EAST); (NORTH); ERITREA; ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0037864143     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(03)00067-6     Document Type: Review

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