Fault growth and propagation during incipient continental rifting: Insight from a combined aeromagnetic and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission digital elevation model investigation of the Okavango Rift Zone, northwest Botswana

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Kinabo, B D ^a,b   Hogan, J P ^a   Atekwana, Estella A ^c   Abdelsalam, M G ^a   Modisi, M P ^d  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Bostwana   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT SCARP; GRABEN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; OKAVANGO RIFT ZONE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 50949119004     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002154     Document Type: Article

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