Four students and two faculty from the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University, along with colleagues of the Malawi Geological Survey Department, conducted a 1 month field work in northern Malawi to better understand the role of pre-exis
ting structures on the architecture of new faults created by rifting. Geophysical surveys that consisted of gravity, magnetics, and electrical resistivity were used to image the subsurface structures. Structural and geological mapping characterized the structures exposed at outcrops and road cuts. Preliminary results of this research will be presented in 4 abstracts submitted to the 2015 American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco at the end of the year.
We are excited about our experiences in Malawi and look forward to our visit next year where we will extend our research to central Malawi.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. II-1358150.
