The East African Rift System

Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials

Athanas Simon Macheyeki, Dalaly Peter Kafumu (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

364 Seiten

2024
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division (Verlag)
978-0-323-95642-0 (ISBN)

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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.?

Athanas S. Macheyeki is a consultant geologist, expert of structural geology and geochemistry, Senior Lecturer at the University of Dodoma and former Commissioner for the Mining (Minerals) Commission in Tanzania. He is also the former CEO of the Tanzania Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, 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 20 publications including articles, geological maps, book chapters and a book titled Applied Geochemistry: Advances in Mineral Exploration Techniques. 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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2024
Verlagsort	Philadelphia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-10	0-323-95642-4 / 0323956424
ISBN-13	978-0-323-95642-0 / 9780323956420
Zustand	Neuware