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From the lebombo monocline to the Mozambique deep basin, using combined wide-an...
Moulin, Maryline; Leprêtre, Angelique; Verrier, Fanny; Schnürle, Philippe; Evain, Mikael; Clarens, Philippe; Thompson, Joseph; Dias, NunoThe North Natal valley (NNV), South Mozambique margin, is a key area for the understanding of the SW Indian Ocean history since the Gondwana break-up as its crustal nature and geometry strongly impacted the recon-struction of the paleogeography before the rifting. It is also of considerable importance for the understanding of the evolution of a margin system as the NNV is situated at the transition between dive...
Gondwana breakup: messages from the North Natal Valley
Moulin, Maryline; Aslanian, Daniel; Evain, Mikael; Lepretre, Angelique; Schnurle, Philippe; Verrier, Fanny; Thompson, Joseph; De Clarens, PhilippeThe Natal Valley, offshore Mozambique, is a key area for understanding the evolution of East Gondwana. Within the scope of the integrated multidisciplinary PAMELA project, we present new wide-angle seismic data and interpretations, which considerably alter Geoscience paradigms. These data reveal the presence of a 30-km-thick crust that we argue to be of continental nature. This falsifies all the most recent pal...