Malagasy orogeny

The Malagasy orogeny is the Ediacaran to Cambrian orogeny that resulted as India collided with the already amalgamated African continent that consisted of Azania and the Congo-Tanzania-Bangweulu Block.[1] The orogeny affected the parts of the East African Orogen[2] that are now found in southern India, Madagascar and central Arabia. The term "Malagasy orogeny" was introduced by Collins & Pisarevsky 2005 for the orogenesis between India and a series of Gondwanan cratonic blocks in present-day Africa (Congo/Tanzania/Bangweulu/Azania). In their reconstruction, India collided with Australia/Mawson in the Kuunga orogeny before the formation of Gondwana.[3] They identified the Betsimisaraka suture in eastern Madagascar as the boundary between the African and India terranes.[4]

## See also

* Geology of Madagascar
* Geology of India
* Geology of Tanzania
* Geology of Mozambique
* Geology of South Africa

## References

1. ↑ Collins & Pisarevsky 2005
2. ↑ Stern 1994
3. ↑ Collins & Pisarevsky 2005, Abstract
4. ↑ Collins & Pisarevsky 2005, p. 257

### Bibliography

* Collins, A. S.; Pisarevsky, S. A. (2005). "Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens". Earth-Science Reviews 71 (3–4): 229–270. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.02.004. Bibcode: 2005ESRv...71..229C.
* Stern, R. J. (1994). "Arc assembly and continental collision in the Neoproterozoic East African Orogen: implications for the consolidation of Gondwanaland". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 22 (1): 319–351. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.22.1.319. https://bbs.utdallas.edu/~rjstern/pdfs/SternEAO-AREPS94.pdf. Retrieved 16 September 2017.

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