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East African Orogeny

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The East African and Kuungan orogens[1]

The East African Orogeny (EAO) is the main stage in the Neoproterozoic assembly of East and West Gondwana (Australia–India–Antarctica and Africa–South America) along the Mozambique Belt.[2]

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Gondwana assembly

The notion that Gondwana was assembled during the Late Precambrian from two older fragments along the Pan-African Mozambique Belt was first proposed in the early 1980s.[3] A decade later this continental collision was named the East African Orogeny, but it was also realised that this was not the simple bringing together of two halves. Rather, it was the piecemeal assembly of several much smaller cratonic elements that once formed an earlier supercontinent (today known as Rodinia), a process that eventually culminated in the relatively short-lived Gondwanan supercontinent.[2]

Two partly incomparable scenarios have been proposed for this assembly.[4] In one model, the EAO evolved from an accretionary orogeny involving the amalgamation of arcs and evolved into a collisional orogeny when the Neoproterozoic continent Azania collided with the Congo-Tanzania-Bangweulu Block at c. 640 Ma.[5] In another model, the assembly of East Gondwana c. 750 to 530 Ma was a multiphase process which included two main periods of orogenesis: the older EAO (c. 750 to 620 Ma) and the younger Kuunga Orogeny (c. 570 to 530 Ma).[6] In the former scenario the Kuunga Orogeny of the latter scenario are two coeval events: the collisions between India and Australia-East Antarctica and Azania and India. Furthermore, the two orogens of the latter scenario intersect in Madagascar, the proposed location of the Azania-India collision, and this part of the Kuunga Orogeny should be renamed the Malagasy Orogeny.[7]

Erosion and Cambrian explosion

The East African orogeny resulted in the formation of an enormous mountain chain, known as the Transgondwanan Supermountain, which was more than 8,000 km (5,000 mi)-long and 1,000 km (620 mi)-wide. The sedimentary deposition from this mountain chain, known as the Gondwana Super-fan, exceeded 100 million cubic kilometres (24 million cubic miles) or the equivalent to covering the United States with c. 10 km (6.2 mi) of sediment, lasted for 260 million years and coincided with the Cambrian explosion, the sudden radiation of animal (Metazoan) life c. 550 Ma. These unprecedented sedimentary depositions probably made the diversification of early animal life possible.[8]

The orogen was eroded to such extent that by the Ordovician epoch it had been leveled to a planation surface in Ethiopia.[9][10]

Cenozoic reopening

The Cenozoic East African Rift System mostly evolved along the complex pattern of Proterozoic prerift systems in eastern Africa.[11] It passes through the Mozambique Belt east of the Tanzania Craton.[12]

References

  1. ^ Meert 2003, Fig. 10, p. 19
  2. ^ a b Stern 1994, pp. 320–321, 324
  3. ^ McWilliams 1981, Abstract
  4. ^ For a discussion see Meert 2003, Discussion, p. 31; Collins & Pisarevsky 2005, Comparisons with other models, pp. 256–257; Meert & Lieberman 2008, Assembling Gondwana: polyphase or simple?, pp. 9–11; Nance, Murphy & Santosh 2014, Pannotia (Gondwana), pp. 12, 14
  5. ^ Azania was defined by Collins & Windley 2002, Discussion, pp. 334–335 and named by Collins & Pisarevsky 2005, p. 244
  6. ^ Meert 2003, Abstract
  7. ^ Collins & Pisarevsky 2005, Comparisons with other models, pp. 256–257
  8. ^ Squire et al. 2006
  9. ^ Abbate, Ernesto; Bruni, Piero; Sagri, Mario (2015). "Geology of Ethiopia: A Review and Geomorphological Perspectives". In Billi, Paolo (ed.). Landscapes and Landforms of Ethiopia. World Geomorphological Landscapes. pp. 33–64. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8026-1_2. ISBN 978-94-017-8026-1.
  10. ^ Coltorti, M.; Dramis, F.; Ollier, C.D. (2007). "Planation surfaces in Northern Ethiopia". Geomorphology. 89 (3–4): 287–296. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.12.007.
  11. ^ Ring 1994, Conclusions, p. 325
  12. ^ Aulbach, Rudnick & McDonough 2011, Geology and samples, pp. 106–108

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