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MR. WAYLAND in NATURE of August 25, p. 279, brings forward weighty arguments, based on the results of the Geological Survey of Uganda, to rebut the usually accepted view that the Protectorate, like most of eastern Africa, and probably western Africa as well, has been predominantly in a state of tension. I shall be surprised, however, if further work does not disclose the existence of at least some normal faulting with a north and south strike, showing the former existence of east and west tension. It may well be that compression and tension have more than once alternated with each other in Uganda. There is no reason, too, why a change of conditions may not convert a true rift valley formed in a period of tension into one bounded by reversed faults.
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EVANS, J. Continental Drift and the Stressing of Africa. Nature 112, 438–439 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112438a0
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