Madagascar Plate
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title:
Madagascar Plate
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The Madagascar Plate or Madagascar block is a tectonic plate holding the island of Madagascar. It was once attached to the Gondwana supercontinent and later the Indo-Australian Plate. Rifting in the Somali Basin began at the end of the Carboniferous 300 million years ago, as a part of the Karoo rift system. The initiation of Gondwana breakup, and transform faulting along the Davie Fracture Zone, occurred in the Toarcian following the eruption of the Bouvet (Karoo) mantle plume. At this time East
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Tectonic plate formerly part of the supercontinent Gondwana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plate
date created:
2009-10-04T17:43:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T14:45:34Z
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