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A branch of geology dealing with the broad architecture of the outer part of the Earth, that is, the regional assembling of structural or deformation features, a study of their mutual relations, origin and historical evolution. (Source: BJGEO)

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McFarlane MJ, Eckardt FD 2007. Palaeodune morphology associated with the Gumare fault of the Okavango graben in the Botswana/Namibia borderland: a new model of tectonic influence. South Africa Journal of Geology 110 535-542

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Haddon IG 2005. The sub-Kalahari geology and tectonic evolution of the Kalahari Basin, southern Africa.

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Stuart-Williams J 1992. Overall tectonics, modern basin evolution and groundwater chemistry of the Owambo Basin.

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Mapani B, Cornell D, van Schijndel V 2014. Geochronology and tectonic evolution of the Hohewarte Complex, central Namibia: New insights in Paleoproterozoic to Early Neoproterozoic crustal accretion processes. Journal of African Earth Sciences In Press (Corrected Proof)

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X14002076

Mvondo F, Dauteuil O, Guillocheau F 2011. The Fish River canyon (Southern Namibia): A record of Cenozoic mantle dynamics?. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 343 (7) 478-485

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631071311001477?np=y

Raab MJ, Brown RW, Gallagher K, Carter A, Weber K 2002. Late Cretaceous reactivation of major crustal shear zones in northern Namibia: constraints from apatite fission track analysis. Tectonophysics 349 (1-4) 75-95

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195102000471

Luft FF, Luft JL, Chemal F, Lelarge LMLV, Avila JN 2005. Post-Gondwana break-up record constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology in NW Namibia. Radiation Measurements 39 (6) 675-679

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448704002835

Cartwright J, Swart R, Corner B 2012. Conjugate margins of the South Atlantic: Namibia-Pelotas. Regional Geology and Tectonics: Phanerozoic Passive Margins, Cratonic Basins and Global Tectonic Maps 202-221

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444563576000056

Singletary SJ, Hanson RE, Martin MW, Crowley JL, Bowring SA, Key RM, Ramokate LV, Direng BB, Krole MA 2003. Geochronology of basement rocks in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics. Precambrian Research 121 (1-2) 47-71

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926802002012

Weber K, Ahrendt H 1983. Mechanisms of nappe emplacement at the southern margin of the Damara Orogen (Namibia). Tectonophysics 92 (1-3) 253-274

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Frimmel HE, Frank W 1998. Neoproterozoic tectono-thermal evolution of the Gariep Belt and its basement, Namibia and South Africa. Precambrian Research 90 (1-2) 1-28

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Moore AC 1981. The Tantalite Valley shear zone — a major locus for igneous activity in Southern Namibia (South West Africa)?. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 10 (4) 383-393

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0377027381900871

Frimmel HE, Hartnady CJH, Koller F 1996. Geochemistry and tectonic setting of magmatic units in the Pan-African Gariep Belt, Namibia. Chemical Geology 130 (1-2) 101-121

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0009254195001883

Maslanyi MP, Light MPR, Greenwood RJ, Banks NL 1992. Extension tectonics offshore Namibia and evidence for passive rifting in the South Atlantic. Marine and Petroleum Geology 9 (6) 590-601

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/026481729290032A

Hoal BG 1993. The Proterozoic Sinclair Sequence in southern Namibia: intracratonic rift or active continental margin setting?. Precambrian Research 63 (1-2) 143-162

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/030192689390009Q

Gresse PG, Scheepers R 1993. Neoproterozoic to Cambrian (Namibian) rocks of South Africa: a geochronological and geotectonic review. Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East) 16 (4) 375-393

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/089953629390097A

Dauteuil O, Rouby O, Braun J, Guillocheau F, Deschamps F 2013. Post-breakup evolution of the Namibian margin: Constraints from numerical modeling. Tectonophysics 604 122-138

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Dauteuil O, Deschamps F, Bourgeois O, Mocquet A, Guillocheau F 2013. Post-breakup evolution and palaeotopography of the North Namibian Margin during the Meso-Cenozoic. Tectonophysics 589 103-115

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Passchier CW, Trouw RAJ, Ribeiro A, Paciullo FVP 2002. Tectonic evolution of the southern Kaoko belt, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 35 (1) 61-75

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Gevers TW 1933. Zur Tektonik des mittleren Südwestafrika. Geologische Rundschau 24 (6) 337-348

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Downing KN, Coward MP 1981. The Okahandja Lineament and its significance for Damaran tectonics in Namibia. Geologische Rundschau 70 (3) 972-1000

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01820175

Hawkesworth CJ, Menzies MA, van Calsteren P 1986. Geochemical and tectonic evolution of the Damara Belt, Namibia. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 19 305-319

Website link:http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/19/1/305.abstract

Goudie AS, Eckardt F 1999. The evolution of the morphological framework of the central Namib desert, Namibia, since the early Cretaceous. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 81 (3) 443 - 458

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0459.00073/abstract

Gumbricht T, McCarthy TS, Merry CL 2001. The topography of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and its tectonic and sedimentological implications. South African Journal of Geology 104 243 - 264

Website link:http://sajg.geoscienceworld.org/content/104/3/243

Jegen M, Avdeeva A, Berndt C, Franz G, Heincke B, Hölz S, Neska A, Marti A, Planert L, Chen J, Kopp H, Baba K, Ritter O, Weckmann U, Meqbel N, Behrmann J 2016. 3-D magnetotelluric image of offshore magmatism at the Walvis Ridge and rift basin. Tectonophysics 683 98-108

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195116302220

Kruger T, Kisters A 2016. Magma accumulation and segregation during regional-scale folding: The Holland's dome granite injection complex, Damara belt, Namibia. Journal of Structural Geology 89 1-18

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019181411630061X

Owono FM, Ntamak-Nida M-J, Dauteuil O, Guillocheau F, Njom B 2016. Morphology and long-term landscape evolution of the South African plateau in South Namibia. Catena 142 47-65

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816216300571

Partridge TC 1997. Cainozoic environmental change in southern Africa, with special emphasis on the last 200 000 years. Progress in Physical Geography 21 (1) 3-22

Website link:http://ppg.sagepub.com/content/21/1/3.abstract

Haddon IG, McCarthy TS 2005. The Mesozoic-Cenozoic interior sag basins of Central Africa: The Late-Cretaceous-Cenozoic Kalahari and Okavango basins. Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (1-3) 316-333

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Scholtz CH 1975. Seismicity, tectonics and seismic hazard of the Okavango Delta.

Scholtz CH 1975. Seismicity, tectonics, and seismic hazard of the Okavango Delta. Consultant Report.

McCarthy TS, Green RW, Franey NJ 1993. The influence of neo-tectonics on water dispersal in the northeastern regions of the Okavango swamps, Botswana. Journal of African Earth Sciences 17 (1) 23 - 32

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Scholtz CH 1975. Seismicity, tectonics and seismic hazard of the Okavango Delta.

Scholtz CH 1975. Seismicity, tectonics, and seismic hazard of the Okavango Delta. Consultant Report.

2002. 2.14 The geographical position of Namibia over the last 560 million years - Windhoek.

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Wanke A, Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG, Lorenz V 2000. Karoo unconformities in NW-Namibia and their tectonic implications.. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia (12) 291-301

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McCarthy TS, Barry M, Bloem A, Ellery WN, Ellery K, Heister H, Merry CL, Ruther H, Sternberg H 1997. The gradient of the Okavango Fan, Botswana, and its sedimentological and tectonic implications. Journal of African Earth Sciences 24 (1 - 2) 65 - 78

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Hanson RE Proterozoic tectonic evolution of southern Africa.

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Gumbricht T, McCarthy TS 2003. Hierarchical processes and patterns sustaining the Okavango: An integrated perspective for policy and management. Environmental Monitoring of Tropical and Subtropical Wetlands 181-196

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Stankiewicz J, de Wit MJ 2006. A proposed drainage evolution model for Central Africa—Did the Congo flow east?. Journal of African Earth Sciences 44 75-84

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Muir RA, Whitehead BA, New T, Stevens V, Macey PH, Groenewald CA, Salomon G, Kahle B, Hollingsworth J, Sloan RA 2023. Exceptional scarp preservation in SW Namibia reveals geological controls on large magnitude intraplate seismicity in southern Africa.

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Goudie A 2005. The drainage of Africa since the Cretaceous. Geomorphology 67 437 - 456

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Miller RMcG 1979. The Okahandja Lineament, a fundamental tectonic boundary in the Damara Orogen of South West Africa/Namibia. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 82 (1979) 349-361

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