The Benue trough and cameroon line - A migrating rift system in West Africa

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Nov 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980e%26psl..51..132f&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 51, Issue 1, p. 132-138.

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The remarkable similarity in shape between the Benue trough and the volcanic Cameroon line suggest that they are related to a common ``Y''-shaped hot zone in the asthenosphere over which the African plate has moved. The required short-lived episode of clockwise rotation of Africa, 80 to ca. 70 Ma ago, interrupted the generally anticlockwise rotation implied by the South Atlantic hot spot traces. It correlates with the widespread reorganisation of plate boundaries which occurred 80 Ma ago and with a prominent offset on the Walvis Ridge.

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