The East African Rift System
Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials
- 1st Edition - March 14, 2024
- Latest edition
- Authors: Athanas Simon Macheyeki, Dalaly Peter Kafumu
- Language: English
The East African Rift System: Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the processes pertaining to intra continental rifting, including… Read more
Description
Description
The East African Rift System: Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the processes pertaining to intra continental rifting, including the principles of rifting, volcanic activities, and microplates. The book also provides knowledge on key natural resources available in the rift system such as geothermal and mineral resources and hydrogeological and hydrocarbon resources. Each aspect discussed in the East African Rift System has its equivalent case study, giving readers interested in each rift of the world a way to connect or link to their rift system of interest, be it a sub-chapter on rifting processes or natural resource models.
The book also describes rifting models of selected major rifts (especially continental rifts) of the world, such as the Basin and Range Province, Rio Grande (USA); Rhine Graben (France and Germany); the Tibetan Rohai (Tibet); the Shaanxi Bohai (China); Lake Baikal (Russia); North Island (Australia) and the Aegean Sea Rift (Turkey). Key aspects presented are: rift type, rift age, rift physical dimensions, geothermal gradient models, natural resources and where possible, models of exploration of particular natural resources have been provided.
Key features
Key features
- Connects the science of rift systems to their economic potentials using the East African Rift System as the prime example
- Includes discussions and case studies from rift systems around the world
- Features chapters dedicated to natural resources, such as mineral deposit types (Au, He, REE, U) and the basic principles of their exploration
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Architecture and geology
3. Geodynamics
4. Microplates and their dynamics
5. Geothermal resources
6. Mineral resources
7. Hydrogeological (water) resources
8. Hydrocarbon resources
9. Perspective from other rifts in the world
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: March 14, 2024
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Athanas Simon Macheyeki
Athanas S. Macheyeki is a Professor of Geology at the University of Dodoma. He previously served as Commissioner of the Minerals Commission of Tanzania, Executive Secretary of the Tanzania Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Manager of Applied Geology at the Geological Survey of Tanzania and Principal of the Mineral Resources Institute in Dodoma. He is the Founder of Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga. Prior to his service in the Government of Tanzania, he worked as a Mineral Exploration Geologist with Anglo American Tanzania. He holds a BSc (University of Dar Es Salaam), MSc (University of the Western Cape), and PhD (Ghent University). He developed lithogeochemical ratios for the exploration of Ni–Cu sulphide deposits, including indices such as Pd/V × 1000 (Macheyeki, 2011). He has authored and co-authored more than 30 scholarly publications, including journal articles, geological maps, book chapters, and books, notably Applied Geochemistry (Macheyeki et al., 2020) and The East African Rift System (Macheyeki and Kafumu, 2024).
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