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Mozambique Belt
Band in the Earth's crust from East Antarctica through East Africa up to the Arabian-Nubian Shield / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Mozambique Belt is a band in the Earth's crust that extends from East Antarctica through East Africa up to the Arabian-Nubian Shield. It formed as a suture between plates during the Pan-African orogeny, when Gondwana was formed.
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The Mozambique Belt includes components created when the Mozambique Ocean opened and others created when the ocean later closed.[1]