The East African Rift System
Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials
- 1st Edition - March 14, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Athanas Simon Macheyeki, Dalaly Peter Kafumu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 6 4 2 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 6 4 3 - 7
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
- 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
Students, Researchers and Practitioners across Exploration Geology and Oil and Gas/Mining Industries
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Rifts and rifting
- Abstract
- 1.1 Rift systems and their origins
- 1.2 Types of rifts
- 1.3 Rifting and their driving forces
- 1.4 Rifting hypotheses and controversies
- 1.5 Rifts geomorphology
- 1.6 Active and passive continental margins
- 1.7 Faults and rift segments
- 1.8 Rifts stress regimes
- 1.9 Pure and simple shear strain rift geometry
- 1.10 Rifts accommodation zones
- 1.11 Rift propagation numeric models
- 1.12 Rift reactivation and slip tendency analysis
- 1.13 Earthquakes in rift systems
- 1.14 Volcanic eruptions in rift systems
- 1.15 Seismic arrays in imaging rifting
- 1.16 Rift plumes and other deep structures geophysical studies
- 1.17 Rift processes and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) interferometry studies
- 1.18 Chapter summary
- References
- Chapter 2. Architecture and geology
- Abstract
- 2.1 The architecture of the East African Rift System (EARS)
- 2.2 The geology of the EARS
- 2.3 Deep structures
- References
- Chapter 3. Geodynamics
- Abstract
- 3.1 Rifting
- 3.2 Magmatism and dykes
- 3.3 EARS earthquakes, focal mechanisms and paleostress analysis
- 3.4 EARS initiation and propagation controversies
- References
- Chapter 4. Microplates and their dynamics
- Abstract
- 4.1 Geodesy and crustal deformation—a general case
- 4.2 Geodesy and crustal deformation
- 4.3 Cartesian components of angular velocity ω and linear velocity v
- 4.4 Microplates
- References
- Chapter 5. Geothermal resources
- Abstract
- 5.1 Geothermal energy
- 5.2 Geothermal potential of the EARS
- 5.3 Geochemical data for the Northern part geothermal field
- 5.4 Geochemical data for central part 2 geothermal field
- 5.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6. Mineral resources
- Abstract
- 6.1 Formation of economic mineral deposits
- 6.2 Basic principles of mineral accumulations in rifts
- 6.3 Mineral deposits in the East African Rift System
- 6.4 The Afar and Djibouti rift
- 6.5 The Ethiopian rift
- 6.6 The Eastern branch rifts
- 6.7 The Eyasi–Manonga–Wembere rift system
- 6.8 The Natron–Manyara rift
- 6.9 The Pangani rift
- 6.10 The Manyara–Dodoma rift
- 6.11 The Kenyan rift
- 6.12 The Western branch rifts
- 6.13 The Tanganyika–Rukwa rift
- 6.14 The Rwanda and DRC rifts
- 6.15 The Nyasa/Malawi rift
- 6.16 The Southwestern branch rift
- 6.17 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 7. Hydrogeological (water) resources
- Abstract
- 7.1 Water resources in the East African Rift System (EARS)
- 7.2 Hydrological cycle
- 7.3 Surface water resources
- 7.4 Groundwater resources
- 7.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 8. Hydrocarbon resources
- Abstract
- 8.1 Origin of hydrocarbon resources
- 8.2 Hydrocarbon resources of the East African Rift System (EARS)
- References
- Chapter 9. Perspective from other rifts in the world
- Abstract
- 9.1 The world Cenozoic continental rift systems
- 9.2 Key similarities and differences of some worldwide continental rifts
- 9.3 Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 14, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 364
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323956420
- eBook ISBN: 9780323956437
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Athanas Simon Macheyeki
Athanas S. Macheyeki is a Professor of geology at the University of Dodoma. He is the former Commissioner for the Mining Commission in Tanzania; former Executive Secretary for the Tanzania Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (TEIT), former Manager of Applied Geology - Geological Survey of Tanzania, former Principal of the Mineral Resources Institute – Dodoma and Founder of the Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga (www.esis.ac.tz). Prior to working for the government of Tanzania, he served as Mineral Exploration Geologist for Kabanga Nickel Company Ltd and for Anglo American Exploration Company (Tanzania). He is the holder of BSc. (UDSM), MSc. (UWC) and PhD (UGHENT) and developer of lithogechemical ratios useful for Ni-Cu sulphide exploration. He has authored / co-authored over 2 dozens of publications including articles, geological maps, book chapters and books including (1) Applied Geochemistry: Advances in Mineral Exploration Techniques and (2) The East African Rift System: Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Geology, College of Earth Sciences and Engineering, The University of Dodoma TanzaniaDK
Dalaly Peter Kafumu
Dalaly Peter Kafumu is a geologist specialized in mineral exploration and paleosol development in the East African Rift System. A founder and currently lecturer at the Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga, an institution dedicated into competence based education and training to technicians to serve the mining industry. He was Part-time Lecturer in mineral exploration and environmental geology at the University of Dodoma and Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania. Former Commissioner for Minerals in the Government of Tanzania and former Member of Parliament. Prior to becoming Commissioner he was an exploration geologist at the Geological Survey of Tanzania. He holds B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology and two Postgraduate Diplomas in Mineral Exploration and in Education. He has conducted over 10 international consultancy services in the mining industry and authored and co-authored a book on Applied Geochemistry: Advances in Mineral Exploration Techniques and over 15 peer reviewed scientific articles.
Affiliations and expertise
Parliament Member, Tanzania, United Republic of TanzaniaRead The East African Rift System on ScienceDirect