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Most of the African continent has been a stable craton area since the end of the Pan-African tectono-thermal event (ca. 600–500 Ma ago). The Phanerozoic evolution of this plate has been characterized by diachronous uplift and/or rifting (Fig. 1) and magmatism (Fig. 2) since the Cambrian, and accompanying fragmentation of Gondwanaland from Carboniferous times to the Present.
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Kampunzu, A.B., Popoff, M. (1991). Distribution of the Main Phanerozoic African Rifts and Associated Magmatism: Introductory Notes. In: Kampunzu, A.B., Lubala, R.T. (eds) Magmatism in Extensional Structural Settings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73966-8_1
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