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Sudan experienced extensive pediplanation, a form of sheet flow erosion that scours away overlying sediments, leaving a gently inclined bedrock surface. Because of this, the country has hardly any unmetamorphosed rocks from the Paleozoic or early Mesozoic , with the exception of a few 530 million year old Early Cambrian rocks at Sabaloka.
Satellite image of the Sudan Location of Sudan. Sudan is located in Northeast Africa.It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest.
Mesozoic rift basins including Muglad develop oblique to East African Rift.. The Muglad Basin is a large rift basin in Northern Africa.The basin is situated within southern Sudan and South Sudan, and it covers an area of approximately 120,000 square kilometres (46,000 sq mi) across the two nations.
Geologic formations of Sudan (1 C, 1 P) P. Paleontology in Sudan (3 P) Pages in category "Geology of Sudan" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Topographic map of the Marrah Mountains Detail of the Marrah Caldera Apart from the Aïr Mountains in Niger which are on the border of the Sahara proper, the Marrah Mountains are the only major mountain range in the otherwise flat Sahel, rising up to 2,600 metres (8,500 ft) above the plain, but are relatively unknown owing to lack of ...
Geologic map of South Sudan The geology of South Sudan is founded on Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks , that cover 40 percent of the country's surface and underlie other rock units. The region was affected by the Pan-African orogeny in the Neoproterozoic and extensional tectonics in the Mesozoic that deposited very thick oil-bearing ...
Topographic map of the Meidob volcanic field. Meidob is a volcanic field which covers an area of 100 by 50 kilometres (62 mi × 31 mi) [9] in east–west direction. [1] The field consists of cones and lava flows, which form a 400-metre (1,300 ft) thick pile in the middle of the field [11] in the form of a plateau. [1]
Geology of Sudan (2 C, 7 P) Grasslands of Sudan (1 P) L. ... Pages in category "Geography of Sudan" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.