Mozambique Belt

geological region, Africa

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In Precambrian: Occurrence and distribution of Precambrian rocks
…Proterozoic age include the Limpopo, Mozambique, and Damaran belts in Africa, the Labrador Trough in Canada, and the Eastern Ghats belt in India. Several small relict areas, spanning a few hundred kilometres across, exist within or against Phanerozoic orogenic belts and include the Lofoten islands of Norway
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In Precambrian: Orogenic belts
The Mozambique belt is one of the many Pan-African orogenic belts that formed in the period between 1 billion and 500 million years ago. It extends along the eastern border of Africa from Ethiopia to Kenya and Tanzania. It consists largely of highly metamorphosed, mid-crustal gneisses…
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