Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Large-scale mass wasting in the western Indian Ocean constrains onset of East African rifting

  • Vittorio Maselli,
  • David Iacopini,
  • Cynthia J. Ebinger,
  • Sugandha Tewari,
  • Henk de Haas,
  • Bridget S. Wade,
  • Paul N. Pearson,
  • Malcolm Francis,
  • Arjan van Vliet,
  • Bill Richards,
  • Dick Kroon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17267-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The authors describe a huge submarine landslide deposit offshore Tanzania and highlight that large and potentially tsunamigenic landslide events are associated with plateau uplift and continental rifting in East Africa.