The onset of flysch sedimentation in the Kaoko Belt (NW Namibia) - Implications for the pre-collisional evolution of the Kaoko-Dom Feliciano-Gariep orogen

The short time span between the metamorphism/magmatism in the Punta del Este-Coastal Terrane and deposition of the early orogenic flysch derived from it suggests that the Coastal Terrane was never separated from the Congo Craton by an oceanic domain. The estimated time span between the end of lithospheric stretching and sedimentation of the early flysch suggests that the hypothetical Adamastor Ocean separating the western and eastern forelands of the Kaoko-Dom Feliciano-Gariep orogen must have been small.