Aspects of Rift Valley faulting and volcanicity in North Tanzania: report of a Geologists’ Association Field Meeting in 2008 |
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Authors: | J Barry Dawson |
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Institution: | School of Geosciences, Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK |
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Abstract: | The African Rift Valleys results from Neogene-Recent breakup up the African Plate due to continental extension. Compared with the western sector, in the eastern or Gregory Rift Valley the fracturing is accompanied by a large amount of volcanic activity and, in northern Tanzania, the volcanic rocks are relatively young compared with those in Ethiopia and Kenya where the products of the earliest stages of mantle melting are buried beneath older, more-extensive volcanic formations. The volcanic rocks vary from Pliocene and early Pleistocene intraplate basalts and trachytes to late Pleistocene/Holocene nephelinites and carbonatites. |
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Keywords: | Tanzania Field meeting Continental rifting Volcanicity |
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