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SUBMITTER: Maselli V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7351987 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200710 1
Faulting and earthquakes occur extensively along the flanks of the East African Rift System, including an offshore branch in the western Indian Ocean, resulting in remobilization of sediment in the form of landslides. To date, constraints on the occurrence of submarine landslides at margin scale are lacking, leaving unanswered a link between rifting and slope instability. Here, we show the first overview of landslide deposits in the post-Eocene stratigraphy of the Tanzania margin and we present ...[more]