The East African Rift System

Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-323-95642-0
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 754 g

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.?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macheyeki, Athanas Simon

Kafumu, Dalaly Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Wirtschaftsgeologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Rifts and rifting
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

Über Autor(innen)

Macheyeki, Athanas Simon
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.

Kafumu, Dalaly Peter
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.