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Hastings 1982
Hastings, D.A. (1982). Preliminary correlations of MAGSAT anomalies with tectonic features of Africa. Geophysical Research Letters 9: doi: 10.1029/GL009i004p00303. issn: 0094-8276.

An overview of the MAGSAT scalar anomaly map for Africa has suggested a correlation of MAGSAT anomalies with major crustal blocks of uplift or depression and different degrees of regional metamorphism. The strongest MAGSAT anomalies in Africa are closely correlated spatially with major tectonic features. Although a magnetic anomaly caused by a rectangular crustal block would be offset from the block's center by the effects of magnetic inclination, an anomaly caused by real crustal blocks of varying uplift, depression, and degree of regional metamorphism would be located nearer to the locus of greatest vertical movement and highest grade of metamorphism. Thus, the Bangui anoamly may be caused by a central old Precambrian shield, flanked to the north ang south by two relatively yound sedimentary basins.

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