Evidence for middle Miocene uplift of the East African Plateau

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 543-546

  Wichura, Henry ^a   Bousquet, Romain ^a   Oberhänsli, Roland ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a   Trauth, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICANS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; KENYA RIFT; LAVA FLOWS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLATEAU UPLIFT; SLOPE ANGLES; SUBSEQUENT COOLING; VISCOSITY MODELS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CENOZOIC; EMPLACEMENT; LAVA FLOW; MIOCENE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PHONOLITE; RELIEF; RIFTING; UPLIFT;

EAST AFRICAN PLATEAU; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; KENYA; KENYA RIFT; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 77955943232     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31022.1     Document Type: Article

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