ICGCP400
IGCP400 - Geodynamics of Continental Rifting
The IGCP 400 project "Geodynamics of Continental Rifting" aims at a better understanding of the Cenozoic geodynamics of rifting and sedimentary basin formation in their complex intraplate environment. It is based on comparative investigation of geophysical, tectonic, kinematic and magmatic processes intracontinental rifts, their crustal and upper mantle structure and their global plate tectonic settings. It pays a special attention to the early stages of rifting in continental plates. Four active rift systems were selected: the Afro-Arabian, Baikal, Rio Grande and European Rift Systems. For a better understanding of the evolution of rifting processes with time, the project also considers rifts at various stages of formation, with examples of the mature failed rift of North Sea and Passive Margins in general. The IGCP 400 project has several links with others IGCP and ILP projects. It considers also environmental and natural hazard risks prediction, paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes, lacustrine environment protection and promotion of multilateral north-south and east-west scientific and technological co-operation.
Related publications
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Special Series: Recent Developments in the Geological Knowledge of the Baikal Rift System
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Cenozoic tectonic stress field evolution in the Baikal Rift Zone
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Active Faults of the Baikal Depression
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Paleostress reconstructions and geodynamics of the Baikal region, Central Asia. Part II
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Geodynamics of Baikal Rifting: New Developments and Perspectives
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Structural link between Tanganyika- and Rukwa-rift basins at Karema-Nkamba (Tanzania): Basement structural control and recent evolution
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Results of Belgian-Russian collaboration on the study of the tectonic evolution of Lake Baikal
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Tectonic and paleostress evolution of the Tanganyika-Rukwa-Malawi rift segment, East African Rift System
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Karoo rifting in western Tanzania: precursor of Gondwana breakup ?
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Present-day stress field changes along the Baikal rift and tectonic implications
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Meso-Cenozoic tectonics of the Central Asian orogenic belt: collision of lithospheric plates and mantle plume
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Carbon dioxide-bearing alkaline hydrotherms and strontium-bearing travertines in the Songwe River valley (Tanzania).
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Denudation history of the Malawi (Nyasa) and Rukwa rift flanks (East African Rift System) from fission track thermochronology
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Persistent fault controlled basin formation since the Proterozoic along the western branch of the East African Rift.
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Late Quaternary tectonic activity and lake level fluctuation in the Rukwa rift basin, East Africa.
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Identification of a fossil wood in the Red Sandstone Group of Southwestern Tanzania: stratigraphic and tectonic implications.
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Special Issue: Tectonics, Sedimentation and Volcanism in the East African Rift System
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Identification of a fossil wood specimen in the Red Sandstone Group of southwestern Tanzania: stratigraphical and tectonic implications
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Proceedings of the Active Tectonic Continental Basins International Conference, Gent, Belgium, April 30 – May 2, 1998
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Special Issue: Tectonic control of continental sedimentary basins in Altai-Baikal, Central Asia
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Special Issue: Botswana - 50Th Anniversary of the Geological Survey, Geodynamics of Continental Rifting (IGCP400), Evolution of the Kibaran belt (IGCP418), Neoproterozoic foreland basins (IGCP419)
Dates:
1996
2000
External collaborators:
A. Khan (Leicester, UK), and many others
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
University of Leicester, UK
University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
Institute of Earth’s Crust, SB-RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Dublin Institute for Advanced Sciences, Ireland
