Physics
Scientific paper
May 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21..765n&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 9, p. 765-768
Physics
70
Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Bathymeters, Ocean Bottom, Planetary Temperature, Seamounts, Structural Basins, Geology, Heat Transmission, Maps, Plateaus, Temperature Effects, Topography, Volcanoes
Scientific paper
Maps of residual bathymetry in the ocean basins around the African continent reveal a broad bathymetric swell in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean with an amplitude of about 500 m. We propose that this region of anomalously shallow bathymetry, together with the contiguous eastern and southern African plateaus, form a superswell which we refer to as the African superswell. The origin of the African superswell is uncertain. However, rifting and volcanism in eastern Africa, as well as heat flow measurements in southern Africa and the southeastern Atlantic Ocean, suggest that the superswell may be attributed, at least in part, to heating of the lithosphere.
Nyblade Andrew A.
Robinson Scott W.
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