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The Uganda Section of the Western Rift

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

K. A. Davies
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Abstract

Geological work and drilling in the Western Uganda Rift since 1939 points wholly to the formation of this feature by gradual sinking of the floor. No evidence of compression has been obtained.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 88 , Issue 6 , December 1951 , pp. 377 - 385
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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