One student from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, and four students and two faculty from the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University, along with colleagues from the Malawi Geological Survey Department and Malawi University of Science and Technology, conducted a 1 month fieldwork in southern Malawi to better understand the role of pre-existing structures on the architecture of new faults created by rifting. Structural and geological mapping along the Bilila-Mtakataka and the Chirobwe-Ntcheu faults were conducted to determine strain accommodation along possible seismogenic faults. In addition, electrical resistivity tomography and gravity surveys were conducted along the faults and throughout the Lake Malombe Basin to constrain strain rates of faults and crustal structure of the area. Preliminary results of this research will be presented at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
This trip ends the fieldwork in Malawi and we look forward to our finalizing our publications on this project.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. II-1358150.
