T024
Recent Advances and Future Directions in Studying the Tectonics and Geodynamics of Africa II Posters

Thursday, 10 December 2020: 04:00-20:59
Poster
Primary Convener:  Islam Fadel, University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
Conveners:  Folarin Kolawole, University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus, School of Geosciences, Norman, OK, United States and Mohamed Sobh, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Institute of Geophysics and Geoinformatics, Freiberg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Islam Fadel, University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
Chairs:  Mohamed Sobh, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Institute of Geophysics and Geoinformatics, Freiberg, Germany, Folarin Kolawole, University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus, School of Geosciences, Norman, OK, United States and Islam Fadel, University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Mohamed Sobh, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Institute of Geophysics and Geoinformatics, Freiberg, Germany
 
Seismicity of the Abaya geothermal field in the Ethiopian rift (717088)
Derek Keir1, Christopher Steven Steven Ogden2, Savvas Marcou3, Freddie Ugo3, Amy Woodward3, Atalay Ayele4,5, Birhanu Abera5, Snorri Gudbrandsson6 and Ian D Bastow2, (1)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (4)Addis Ababa University, Institute of Geophysics, Space Science and Astronomy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (5)Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (6)Reykjavik Geothermal, Reykjavik, Iceland
 
Microstructural and Kinematic Characterization of Brittle-Ductile Flow in Late Pan-African Shear Zones: Implications for the Ediacaran Assembly of Gondwanaland (705783)
Abdullah T Mohammad, Helwan University, Faculty of Science, Geology Department, Cairo, Egypt and Yahia A El Kazzaz, Helwan University, Faculty of Science, Geology department, Cairo, Egypt
 
Episodes of micro-rifting contribute to distributed extension in Afar: A case-study of a 2002 event (747650)
Simran Sangha1,2, Gilles Peltzer1,2 and Cecile Doubre3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Université de Strasbourg, IPGS, École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Strasbourg, France
 
Kinematics of linkage between the Main Ethiopian and Eastern rifts in the Turkana Depression (736664)
Martin Musila1, Cynthia J Ebinger2, Samuel Mwangi3, Gladys Kianji3, Atalay Ayele4, Nicholas Mariita5, Ian D Bastow6 and Rebecca O Bendick7, (1)Tulane University, New Orleans, United States, (2)Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States, (3)University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, (4)Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (5)Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya, (6)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (7)University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States
 
High resolution seismic Tomography of Eastern Africa from global and regional datasets (679711)
Félicie Korostelev1, Sylvie Leroy2, Lapo Boschi1, Fabrizio Magrini3, Yang LU4 and Magali Collin5, (1)Sorbonne Université, ISTeP Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)Sorbonne Université, CNRS-INSU, Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, ISTeP UMR 7193, Paris, France, (3)Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy, Department of Sciences, Roma, Italy, (4)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences and Southern California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)TOTAL, EP/R&D, Pau, France, Pau, France
 
3D shear wave velocity structure of the southeastern segment of the Olkaria geothermal field using ambient noise tomography technique (732638)
Junior Kimata1,2, Islam Fadel3 and Mark van der Meijde2, (1)Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC, Geothermal Resource Development, Naivasha, Kenya, (2)University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, Netherlands, (3)University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
 
The Application of Seismic Attributes in an Onshore Tanzanian Salt Basin (690721)
Maria Isabel Freitas da Silva Vucinic1, Christopher Nicholas1 and Luka Vucinic2, (1)Trinity College Dublin, Department of Geology, Dublin, Ireland, (2)Trinity College Dublin, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Dublin, Ireland
 
A review of the seismicity of the Cameroon Volcanic Line observed by two local seismic networks (678599)
Amanda C Lough, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
The Guinea-Demerara volcanic conjugate margins: comparisons of their rifted crustal structure and overlying passive margin stratigraphy (686103)
Marcus Zinecker, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
 
Thermotectonic History of the Southern Malawi Rift and Northern Shire Graben Border Faults: Insights From Apatite Fission Tracks and Remote Sensing Analyses (698424)
Oyewande Ojo1, Daniel A Laó-Dávila1 and Stuart N Thomson2, (1)Oklahoma State University, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Assessing the Role of Lithospheric Buoyancy Forces and Mantle Flow in Driving Deformation across the East Africa Rift through 3D Geodynamic Modeling (714185)
Tahiry Andriantsoa Andriantsoa Rajaonarison, Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States, D. Sarah Stamps, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States and John B Naliboff, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
 
A renewed forward and inversion python package calculating effective elastic thickness (683885)
Nils Holzrichter, Joerg Ebbing and Peter Haas, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
 
Investigating African Mantle Structure with Adaptively Parameterized P-wave Tomography (672107)
Hesam Saeidi1, Samantha Hansen1 and Andrew Nyblade2, (1)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
Craton evolution: a more complex story from thermochemical imaging of the lithospheric and sub-lithospheric mantle (711021)
Walid Ben Mansour, Macquarie University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, Australia, Stephen F Foley, Macquarie University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Suzanne Yvette O'Reilly, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, William L Griffin, Macquarie University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sydney, Australia, Kate Selway, Macquarie University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Andrew Macdonald, De Beers Group of Companies, Exploration, South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, Nicole Januszczak, De Beers Group of Companies, Exploration, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada and Farshad Salajegheh, Macquarie University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
1-D layered seismic structure of the crust beneath Botswana (696941)
Admore Phindani Mpuang, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Uji, Japan and Takuo Shibutani, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
An Updated Map of Tectonic Regionalization for Africa with Application to Gravity Inversion (720713)
Peter Haas1, Wolfgang Szwillus1, Nicolas Luca Celli2, Nils-Peter Finger3, Nils Holzrichter1, Agnes Wansing1 and Joerg Ebbing1, (1)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, (3)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
 
Rifting at the Boundary of Contrasting Terrane Fabrics, Luama Rift, DR Congo (738202)
Abah Philip Omale, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Folarin Kolawole, University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus, School of Geosciences, Norman, OK, United States and Juan M Lorenzo, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
Mapping the thermal structure of Southern Africa from wavelet transform and Bayesian inversion of magnetic data (684642)
Mohamed Sobh and Christian Gerhards, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany
 
Plume-lithosphere Interaction beneath southwestern Africa – Insights from Rayleigh Wave Tomography (717462)
Shantanu Pandey, Shillong Geophysical Research Centre (IIG), Seismology, Shillong, India, Xiaohui Yuan, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany, Eric Debayle, LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Wolfram H. Geissler, AWI Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Benjamin Heit, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
 
Surface wave tomography of Southern Africa using ambient noise analysis (752855)
Islam Fadel1, Hanneke Paulssen2, Mark van der Meijde3, Andrew Nyblade4, Raymond J Durrheim5, Austin White-Gaynor4, Andriamiranto Raveloson5, Tarzan Kwadiba6, Onkgopotse Ntibinyane7, Nortin Titus8 and Mako Sitali8, (1)University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)University of Twente, Earth System Analysis, Enschede, Netherlands, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (5)University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Johannesburg, South Africa, (6)Principal Geophysicist 1 & Head of Geophysics Division, Botswana Geoscience Institute, Lobatse, Botswana, (7)Botswana Geoscience Institute, Lobatse, Botswana, (8)Geological Survey of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
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