Affiliation:
1. PTT Exploration and Production, Enco, Soi 11, Vibhavadi-Rangsit Road, 10400, Thailand
Abstract
AbstractFour areas (Loriu, Lojamei, Muranachok-Muruangapoi, Kamutile Hills) of well-developed Miocene-age dikes in the northern Kenya Rift (Turkana, Kenya) have been identified from fieldwork and satellite images; in total, >3500 dikes were mapped. Three areas display NNW-SSE– to N-S–oriented dike swarms, with straight, radial, and concentric patterns in zones <15 km long, and indicate NNW-SSE to N-S regional maximum horizontal principal stress (SHmax) directions in the early to middle Miocene. Individual dikes are typically <2 m wide and tens to hundreds of meters long and have accommodated <2% extension. In places (Loriu, Lojamei, Lokhone high), dikes trend at a high angle to the rift trend, suggesting some local influence (e.g., overpressured magma chamber, cracked lid–style dike intrusions over a sill or laccolith, preexisting fabric in basement) on orientation, in addition to the influence from regional stresses. Only a minor influence by basement fabrics is seen on dike orientation. The early- to middle-Miocene dikes and extrusive activity ended a long phase (up to 25 m.y.) of amagmatic half-graben development in central Kenya and southern Turkana, which lay on the southern edge of the early (Eocene–Oligocene) plume activity. The Miocene dike sets and extension on major border faults in Turkana contrast with larger, more extensive arrays of dikes in evolved systems in the Main Ethiopian Rift that are critical for accommodating crustal extension. By the Pliocene–Holocene, magmatism and intrusion along dikes had become more important for accommodating extension, and the tectonic characteristics began to resemble those of rift basins elsewhere in the eastern branch of the East African Rift.
Publisher
Geological Society of America
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