The Kuunga orogeny (from
Swahili, "to unite")[1] was an
orogeny that occurred in South-east Africa during the
Ediacaran and
Cambrian. Composed of three separate orogenic belts (Damara, Zambesi, and Lurio) that are slightly younger than the
East African orogeny, the Kuunga orogeny documents the collision between north and south
Gondwana, or what is today
Dronning Maud Land in Antarctica and northern
Mozambique in Africa.[2]
The name was proposed in 1995 by J. G. Meert, R. van der Voo and S. Ayub.[3]
^Meert, J. G.; van der Voo, R.; Ayub, S. (1995). "Paleomagnetic investigation of the Neoproterozoic Gagwe lavas and Mbozi complex, Tanzania and the assembly of Gondwana". Precambrian Research. 74 (4): 225–244.
doi:
10.1016/0301-9268(95)00012-T.