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Journal of Petroleum Geology

Abstract

Journal of Petroleum Geology, Vol.5, No.1, pp. 3-30, 1982

©Copyright 2000 Scientific Press, Ltd.

MOZAMBIQUE-MADAGASCAR GEOSYNCLINE, I:
DEPOSITION AND ARCHITECTURE

Maurice Kamen-Kaye*

*1 Waterhouse Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

Abstract

The Mozambique-Madagascar geosyncline consists of an open-ended non-compressional NNE-SSW downwarp 1,700 km long in the area of the present Mozambique Channel and its bordering coastal regions. Exposed basement marks the lateral boundaries of the geosyncline, and embayments rather than discrete basins modify its regional geometry. A sedimentary volume of more than 5,000,000 cu km resulted from subsidence and hypersubsidence, not only in the Mozambique Channel but also on the coastal borders, in places relatively close to exposed basement.

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