The western margin of southern Africa is a classic volcanic rifted margin, with associated flood basalts of the ~130 Ma Parana - Etendeka Province and with prominent seaward-dipping reflector sequences and high-velocity underplated crust offshore (e.g. Bauer et al., 2000).

Principal Investigators

• Michael Weber (GFZ)
• B. Buttkus (BGR)
• C. deBeer (CGS)

Experiments

• Offshore / Onshore active seismics (BGR, GFZ; 2003)
• thermo-mechanical modelling (GFZ)