The Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) (or Shear System) is a wrench fault system extending in an ENE direction from the Gulf of Guinea through Cameroon...
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Trans-Brazilian Lineament. It is part of the Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) and dates to at least 640 million years ago. The zone was rejuvenated several times,...
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recent Neoproterozoic sediments. The plate includes shear zones such as the Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) where, in the past, two sections of the crust...
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continue east as the Oubanguide Belt with which they form the Central African Shear Zone. The Saharan Metacraton between the Hoggar Mountains and the Nile...
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impact structure Central African Shear Zone Maria Wilman Hugo Dummett 1911 geological map of Africa 2015 surface lithology of Africa map Category:Geologic...
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Al-Malik is the bed of an extinct river in Sudan. Following the Central African Shear Zone, it stretches for 560 km from the lake of Umm Badr in North Kurdufan...
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which began to separate from this part Africa around 115 million years ago. The Central African Shear Zone (CASZ), a lineament that extends from the...
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Nile (category International rivers of Africa)
river south-west for over 300 km, following the structure of the Central African Shear Zone embracing the Bayuda Desert. At Al Dabbah it resumes its northward...
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Benue Trough (category Geology of Africa)
be responsible for the line of volcanoes in Cameroon along the Central African Shear Zone and for the volcanic island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean...
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Gondwana (category Geology of Africa)
rifts systems on both continents, including the Central African Rift System and the Central African Shear Zone which lasted until c. 85 Ma. At Brazilian latitudes...
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