The East African Rift System: Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials - Softcover

Macheyeki, Athanas Simon; Kafumu, Dalaly Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323956424 ISBN 13: 9780323956420

Publisher: Elsevier, 2024

Synopsis

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. 

• Connects the science of rift systems to their economic potentials using the East African Rift System as the prime example
• Includes discussions and case studies from rift systems around the world
• Features chapters dedicated to natural resources, such as mineral deposit types (Au, He, REE, U) and the basic principles of their exploration 

About this title

About the Authors

Athanas S. Macheyeki is a Professor of Geology at the University of Dodoma. He previously served as Commissioner of the Minerals Commission of Tanzania, Executive Secretary of the Tanzania Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Manager of Applied Geology at the Geological Survey of Tanzania and Principal of the Mineral Resources Institute in Dodoma. He is the Founder of Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga. Prior to his service in the Government of Tanzania, he worked as a Mineral Exploration Geologist with Anglo American Tanzania. He holds a BSc (University of Dar Es Salaam), MSc (University of the Western Cape), and PhD (Ghent University). He developed lithogeochemical ratios for the exploration of Ni–Cu sulphide deposits, including indices such as Pd/V × 1000 (Macheyeki, 2011). He has authored and co-authored more than 30 scholarly publications, including journal articles, geological maps, book chapters, and books, notably Applied Geochemistry (Macheyeki et al., 2020) and The East African Rift System (Macheyeki and Kafumu, 2024).

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.

From the Back Cover

The East African Rift System: Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the processes pertaining to intra continental rifting right from general basic principles of rifting, volcanic activities and microplates. It also provides knowledge on key natural resources available in the rift system that include geothermal and mineral resources as well as hydrogeological and hydrocarbon resources. Each aspect discussed in the East African Rift System has its equivalent case study and readers interested in each rift of the world will find something connected or linked to their rift system of interest, be it a sub-chapter on rifting processes or natural resource models.

The East African Rift System: Geodynamics and Natural Resource Potentials 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323956424
• ISBN 13: 9780323956420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364