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An electrical conductivity anomaly and rifting in southern Africa

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Measurements of electrical conductivity provide information about rifting in eastern and southern Africa. Overall geophysical and geological evidence supports the view that the conductive zone marks an extension of the African Rift system along old weak zones in the lithosphere.

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  1. Institute of Earth and Planetary Physics and Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2EI, Canada

    J. H. de Beer & D. I. Gough

  2. National Physical Research Laboratory, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, PO Box 395, Pretoria, South Africa

    J. S. V. van Zijl

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de Beer, J., Gough, D. & van Zijl, J. An electrical conductivity anomaly and rifting in southern Africa. Nature 255, 678–680 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255678a0

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