Research in Structural Geology & Tectonics

Rukwa Rift Transtensional Basin - Western Branch, East African Rift

Strike-slip structural setting of the deepest half-graben in the Cenozoic East African Rift.

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Publications

Karson, J.A. and Curtis, P.C., 1989. Tectonic and Magmatic Processes in the Eastern Branch of the East African Rift and Implications for Magmatically Active Continental Rifts, In: Rifting in Africa: Karroo to Recent, edited by B.R. Rosendahl, J.J.W. Rogers, and N.M. Rach, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Special Volume, v. 8, p. 431-453.

Wheeler, W.H. and Karson, J.A., 1989. Structure and Kinematics of the Livingstone Mountains Border Fault Zone, Nyasa (Malawi) Rift, Southwestern Tanzania, In: Rifting in Africa: Karroo to Recent, edited by B.R. Rosendahl, J.J.W. Rogers, and N.M. Rach, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Special Volume, v. 8, p. 393-413.

Wheeler, W.H. and Karson, J.A., 1994. Extension and Subsidence Along a "Weak" Continental Transform: An Example From the Rukwa Rift, East Africa, Geology, v. 22, p. 625-628.

Abstracts

Wheeler, W.H., Karson, J.A. and Rosendahl, B.R., 1989. Structure and Kinematics of the Livingstone Border Fault System, E. Africa, American Geological Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v. 70, p. 1361.

Wheeler, W.H., Rosendahl, B.R. and Karson, J.A., 1989. A Case Study in Rift Border Fault Structure: The Livingstone Mountains Border Fault System, SW Tanzania, E. Africa, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting (St. Louis), Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, p. A83.

Wheeler, W.H. and Karson, J.A., 1992. Strike-Slip Kinematics of the Rukwa Rift, East Africa, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v. 73, p. 534.

Wheeler, W.H. and Karson, J.A., 1993. Basin Evolution Along Weak Strike-Slip Faults- A New Perspective on the Western Branch of the East African Rift, Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting (Boston), Abstracts with Programs v. 25, p. A410.

Wheeler, W.H. and Karson, J.A., 1994. Basin Evolution Along Weak Transform Faults: Examples from Transform Margins and the East African Rift, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v. 75, p. 599.