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The East African Rift System (EARS) is a significant example of active tectonics, which provides opportunities to examine the stages of continental faulting and landscape evolution. The southwest extension of the EARS is one of the most significant examples of active tectonics nowadays, however, seismotectonic research in the area has been scarce, despite the fundamental importance of neotectonics. Our first study area is located between the Northern Province of Zambia and the southeastern Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lakes Mweru and Mweru Wantipa are part of the southwest extension of the EARS. Fault analysis reveals that, since the Miocene, movements along the active Mweru-Mweru Wantipa Fault System (MMFS) have been largely responsible for the reorganization of the landscape and the drainage patterns across the southwestern branch of the EARS. To investigate the spatial and temporal patterns of fluvial-lacustrine landscape development, we determined in-situ cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al in a total of twenty-six ...
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2022
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Olivotos, Spyros-Christos Reconstructing the landscape evolution of South Central Africa by surface exposure dating of waterfalls Potsdam, 2022
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English
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DOI:
10.25932/publishup-60169
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-601699
Author information:
Merchel, Silke 1967-
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