Thanks Pixie I really appreciate all the thought you're putting in to helping me it really does help even if you lost a whole post, just knowing what places to look for has already changed some ideas I had, I just have a hard time finding topographic reference images in a decent resolution. I've lost posts like that before, actually I loose them all the time, it seems almost like there's a time limit and I've noticed that if I press the preview button every couple of lines that it doesn't happen so I've gotten into a habit of doing that...It's a real pain in the a**.Originally Posted by Pixie
I had a lovely big post about different kind of leftovers from continental rifting, with examples and intelligent links to nice looking maps. All gone in weird "page refresh"...
Oh well, here's the short version of the post:
- have a look at Simien Mountains in Ethiopia and Yemen topography across the Red Sea, for an example of highlands alongside rifting.
- see namibian/angolan coastal topography for a different example of an older rifted area and the east africa rift from burundi to malawi for a much more recent (early stages) rifting
- southern Brazil coast is yet a different example, but more complex
- and the Bay of Biscay west of France the flattest of examples, no highlands at all here
- finally, a video on youtube by a guy called Hassan Geologist or something like that.
Also, you may not like your working map, but I think it is very promising! Very very promising..
I found some interesting videos today on you tube looking for that guy Hassan the Geologist and learned some things I didn't know about so now I'm on a mission to find some high resolution references of the topography around a transform fault. Silly me I just assumed there would be regular mountains there but now I know better so thank you. There's just so many things I wouldn't even have thought to look into.
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