Central African Shear Zone

Central Africa showing the interpreted extent of the CASZ
Rifts in Sudan and Kenya

The Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) (or Shear System) is a wrench fault system extending in an ENE direction from the Gulf of Guinea through Cameroon into Sudan.[1] The structure is not well understood. As of 2008, there was still no general agreement about how the individual shears along the lineament link up.[2]

  1. ^ Ibrahim, Ebinger & Fairhead 1996, pp. 79–97.
  2. ^ Pankhurst 2008, pp. 404.