Geodynamics and continental extension in the East African Rift System: origin and evolution of the Turkana Depression in northern Kenya

东非裂谷系统的地球动力学和大陆扩张：肯尼亚北部图尔卡纳凹陷的起源和演化

• 批准号: DP130101610
• 负责人: Prof Andrew Gleadow
• 金额: $ 29.85万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP130101610
• 关键词: Geodynamics; continental; extension; East; African

The Lake Turkana region in northern Kenya, famous for its fossil evidence of human origins, occupies a critical position within the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. This project seeks to explain how this complex region evolved and also the dynamic earth processes responsible for its formation between two great uplifted domes in Ethiopia and Kenya.

肯尼亚北部的图尔卡纳湖地区以其人类起源的化石证据而闻名，在东非大裂谷中占据着关键的位置。这个项目试图解释这个复杂的地区是如何演变的，以及在埃塞俄比亚和肯尼亚的两个巨大的隆起穹顶之间形成的动态地球过程。