…more-discrete mountain-building event (called the Pan-African orogeny) began. That event (which was actually a series of smaller orogenies) occurred when the two blocks of the former supercontinent Rodinia collided with a craton (the stable interior portion of a continent) that would become the present-day Congo region. Thus was formed a…

…what is known as the Pan-African episode, a tectonic evolution that also encompassed large parts of present-day Africa and other parts of the Gondwanaland supercontinent. That tectonic evolution was the one that eventually formed the Arabian platform. Following the emergence of the ocean, a variety of island arcs formed between…

…mobile-belt formation known as the Pan-African episode (about 950 to 550 million years ago), which generated long fold belts, such as the Mozambique belt along the east coast of Africa, the Damara and Katanga belts extending from Namibia into the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, the West Congo…