Table of Contents - SPE226: Evolution of the Conjugate East African-Madagascan Margins and the Western Somali Basin


Acknowledgments

Abstract

Introduction

Stratigraphy and structure; Surface geology and borehole results

Pre-Jurassic Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Lower Jurassic
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Monrondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Middle Jurassic
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Upper Cretaceous
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Paleocene
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Eocene
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Oligocene
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Miocene
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Pliocene
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary
Quaternary
Diego Basin
Majunga Basin
Somali Coastal Basin
Lamu Embayment
Tanzanian coastal basins
Morondava Basin
Western Somali Basin
Summary

Stratigraphy and structure; Offshore acoustic stratigraphy studies

Correlation with DSDP results with multichannel seismic data
Margins bordering the Western Somali Basin
Acoustic stratigraphy
Depth to basement
Jurassic Sediment
Jurassic through mid-Cretaceous sediments
Mid-Cretaceous through upper Oligocene sediment
Upper Oligocene through Quaternary sediments
Total sediment thickness

Concluding Discussion

Conceptual and global implications

References