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Setting and Significance of Tertiary-Recent Volcanism in the Darfur Province of Western Sudan

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WITHIN the stable African plate there are several widely separated major volcanic provinces of Tertiary to Recent age. The largest of these, located along the East African-Ethiopean-Red Sea rift system are well known1,2 and figure prominently in modern studies of fracturing of the African plate and the development of new oceanic crust in the Red Sea2.

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  1. Department of Earth Science, The Open University, Walton Hall, Walton, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire

    P. W. FRANCIS & R. S. THORPE

  2. Department of Geology, The University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

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FRANCIS, P., THORPE, R. & AHMED, F. Setting and Significance of Tertiary-Recent Volcanism in the Darfur Province of Western Sudan. Nature Physical Science 243, 30–32 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci243030a0

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