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WRIGHT1,2 has revived Bailey's lateral compression model3 for the generation of Africa's topographic swells4–6 and the related igneous activity. Here I discuss some flaws in this approach, many of which persist in spite of its translation into plate-tectonic language.
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GILL, R. African Swells, Magmatism and Plate Tectonics. Nature 247, 25–26 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247025a0
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