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206:"Evapotranspiration computed by Darcy's Law: Sudan case study"
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The rift basin is formed by the junction of the Umm Rubaba
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131:Afro-Arabian geology: a kinematic view
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609:West and Central African Rift System
285:Major African geological formations
234:The Nile: an annotated bibliography
1008:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by
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128:Robert Bowen, Ulrich Jux (1987).
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115:10.1016/0040-1951(85)90113-1
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1060:Mesozoic rifts and grabens
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423:Central African Shear Zone
155:Richard C. Selley (1997).
41:Central African Shear Zone
800:Central Pangean Mountains
453:Western Meseta Shear Zone
159:. Elsevier. p. 115.
134:. Springer. p. 143.
181:"Rocks for crops: Sudan"
23:Rifts in Sudan and Kenya
820:Eastern Rift mountains
742:Tanzania Coastal Basin
521:Terra Australis Orogen
186:. University of Guelph
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835:Great Karas Mountains
815:Eastern Arc Mountains
355:Arabian-Nubian Shield
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732:Somali Coastal Basin
443:Mwembeshi Shear Zone
910:Teffedest Mountains
825:Ethiopian Highlands
516:Pan-African orogens
486:East African Orogen
418:Broodkop Shear Zone
390:West African Craton
333:Victoria Microplate
107:1985Tectp.113..123B
53:Southern Sudan Rift
974:List of inselbergs
944:Jugurtha Tableland
895:Sankwala Mountains
890:Rwenzori Mountains
707:Ouled Abdoun Basin
702:Orange River Basin
624:Sedimentary basins
433:Foumban Shear Zone
375:Saharan Metacraton
204:O. A. E. Abdalla.
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722:Rio del Rey Basin
692:Niger Delta Basin
677:Iullemmeden Basin
569:Gulf of Suez Rift
564:East African Rift
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667:Karoo Basin
652:Congo Basin
599:Atbara rift
579:Melut Basin
544:Anza trough
405:Shear zones
229:Terje Tvedt
61:Atbara rift
35:in central
1049:Categories
949:Mount Mabu
934:Anti-Atlas
925:Inselbergs
647:Chad Basin
214:2011-01-27
190:2011-01-27
78:References
72:White Nile
45:Cretaceous
1002:tectonics
969:Zuma Rock
964:Wase Rock
662:El Djouf
231:(2004).
49:Tertiary
463:Orogens
347:shields
343:Cratons
103:Bibcode
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