FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Gondwana breakup: messages from the North Natal Valley BT AF Moulin, Maryline Aslanian, Daniel Evain, Mikael Leprêtre, Angelique Schnurle, Philippe Verrier, Fanny Thompson, Joseph Offei De Clarens, P. Leroy, S. Dias, N. AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1,2;5:1;6:1;7:1;8:3;9:4;10:5,6;11:; FF 1:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;2:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;3:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;4:;5:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;6:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;7:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;8:;9:;10:;11:; C1 Ifremer, REM/GM/LGS Centre de Brest 29280 Plouzané, France LGO, Laboratoire Geosciences Ocean IUEM CNRS 29280 Plouzané, France Total, R&D, avenue Larribau 64000 Pau , France UPMC, Univ Paris 6 CNRS UMR 7193 ISTEP 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris, France ISEL, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa Lisboa , Portugal IDL, Instituto Dom Luis Faculdade das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa 1749‐016 Lisboa, Portugal C2 IFREMER, FRANCE UBO, FRANCE TOTAL, FRANCE UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE ISEL, PORTUGAL UNIV LISBOA, PORTUGAL SI BREST SE PDG-REM-GM-LGS UM LGO IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france IF 3.037 TC 26 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00598/71055/69368.pdf LA English DT Article CR PAMELA-MOZ03 BO Pourquoi pas ? AB The Natal Valley, offshore Mozambique, is a key area for understanding the evolution of East Gondwana. Within the scope of the integrated multidisciplinary PAMELA project, we present new wide‐angle seismic data and interpretations, which considerably alter Geoscience paradigms. These data reveal the presence of a 30 km‐thick crust that we argue to be of continental nature. This falsifies all the most recent paleo‐reconstructions of the Gondwana. This 30 km‐thick continental crust 1000 m below sea level implies a complex history with probable intrusions of mantle‐derived melts in the lower crust, connected to several occurrences of magmatism, which seems to evidence the crucial role of the lower continental crust in passive margin genesis. PY 2020 PD JUL SO Terra Nova SN 0954-4879 PU Wiley VL 32 IS 3 UT 000506379100001 BP 205 EP 214 DI 10.1111/ter.12448 ID 71055 ER EF