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967: 31: 167:"Comparison of the metamorphic history of the Monapo Complex, northern Mozambique and Balchenfjella and Austhameren areas, Sør Rondane, Antarctica: Implications for the Kuunga Orogeny and the amalgamation of N and S. Gondwana" 252: 133:
Meert, J. G.; van der Voo, R.; Ayub, S. (1995). "Paleomagnetic investigation of the Neoproterozoic Gagwe lavas and Mbozi complex, Tanzania and the assembly of Gondwana".
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Grantham, G. H.; Macey, P. H.; Horie, K.; Kawakami, T.; Ishikawa, M.; Satish-Kumar, M.; Tsuchiya, N.; Graser, P.; Azevedo, S. (2013).
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The name was proposed in 1995 by J. G. Meert, R. van der Voo and S. Ayub.
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post-collisional extension of the East African Orogeny in blue.
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collisional metamorphism of the Kuunga orogeny in red,
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Index

Kuunga Orogeny

570 to 530
620 to 550
Swahili
orogeny
Ediacaran
Cambrian
East African orogeny
Gondwana
Dronning Maud Land
Mozambique
Meert 2003
Grantham et al. 2013
doi
10.1016/0301-9268(95)00012-T
"Comparison of the metamorphic history of the Monapo Complex, northern Mozambique and Balchenfjella and Austhameren areas, Sør Rondane, Antarctica: Implications for the Kuunga Orogeny and the amalgamation of N and S. Gondwana"
doi
10.1016/j.precamres.2012.11.012
"A synopsis of events related to the assembly of eastern Gondwana"
Bibcode
2003Tectp.362....1M
doi
10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00629-7
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Plates
African Plate
Somali Plate

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