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SUBMITTER: Gilfillan SMV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6831580 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20191105 1
Southern Africa is characterised by unusually elevated topography and abnormal heat flow. This can be explained by thermal perturbation of the mantle, but the origin of this is unclear. Geophysics has not detected a thermal anomaly in the upper mantle and there is no geochemical evidence of an asthenosphere mantle contribution to the Cenozoic volcanic record of the region. Here we show that natural CO<sub>2</sub> seeps along the Ntlakwe-Bongwan fault within KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, have C-He ...[more]