TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural style of the Turkana Rift, Kenya
AU - Dunkelman, Thomas J.
AU - Karson, Jeffrey A.
AU - Rosendahl, Bruce R.
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - Multifold seismic reflection and geologic mapping in part of the eastern branch of the East African Rift system of northern Kenya reveal a major rift structure containing at least 3 km of Neogene sediment fill beneath Lake Turkana. This includes a series of half-graben basins, with centrally located Quaternary volcanic centers, which are linked end-to-end by structural accommodation zones. Whereas the geometry of rifting is similar to that of the nonvolcanic western branch of the East African Rift system, the Turkana half-grabens are much smaller and may reflect extension of a thinner lithosphere or development of more closely spaced fracture patterns during rift evolution, or both.
AB - Multifold seismic reflection and geologic mapping in part of the eastern branch of the East African Rift system of northern Kenya reveal a major rift structure containing at least 3 km of Neogene sediment fill beneath Lake Turkana. This includes a series of half-graben basins, with centrally located Quaternary volcanic centers, which are linked end-to-end by structural accommodation zones. Whereas the geometry of rifting is similar to that of the nonvolcanic western branch of the East African Rift system, the Turkana half-grabens are much smaller and may reflect extension of a thinner lithosphere or development of more closely spaced fracture patterns during rift evolution, or both.
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U2 - 10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0258:SSOTTR>2.3.CO;2
DO - 10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0258:SSOTTR>2.3.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000702070
SN - 0091-7613
VL - 16
SP - 258
EP - 261
JO - Geology
JF - Geology
IS - 3
ER -