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Volume: 57 (1973)

Issue: 12. (December)

First Page: 2440

Last Page: 2443

Title: Correlation of Paleozoic-Mesozoic Sediments in Northern Yemen and Tigre, Northern Ethiopia: GEOLOGIC NOTES

Author(s): Michael Beyth (2)

Abstract:

It has been proposed that during the Cenozoic the Arabian Peninsula drifted from Africa. After a regional mapping of the Tigre Province, northern Ethiopia, by the Geological Survey of Ethiopia, a good stratigraphic correlation of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic sequence is available between northern Yemen and Tigre. Because of intensive faulting during rifting the correlative units were not mapped in the Ethiopian Escarpment and Danakil Alps, and the correlation is from plateau to plateau across the Red Sea. This correlation can be used as a guide for solving the rifting problems and for a better understanding of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic stratigraphy of the area.

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