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WORK by the Geological Survey of Zambia1,2 has revealed the presence of a number of major E.N.E.-trending transcurrent dislocation zones in the Pre-Cambrian rocks of that country. Such zones are characterized by intense shearing, refoliation, blastomylonites and silicified gneisses. The best-defined is the Mwembeshi zone which can be traced discontinuously for some 500 miles eastwards from Mumbwa and is inferred2 to enter Malawi at about the 12° 45′ S. parallel (Fig. 1).
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BLOOMFIELD, K. A Major East-north-east Dislocation Zone in Central Malawi. Nature 211, 612–614 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211612a0
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