ABSTRACT
Based on kinematic analyses from a section through the Eastern Desert we introduce a new model for the Panafrican orogeny for the central Eastern Desert. Bulk convergence was accomodated by different displacement directions within the orogen. (1) External orogenic portions sufferd stacking in a fold and thrust tectonic style with displacement towards the foreland (west). (2) In internal zones displacement changed towards orogen-parallel slip. (3) Within the metamorphic domes, which may represent lower plate rocks, the displacement was oblique to the orogen front. We explain the overall situation with an oblique collisional setting. Streching in the metamorphosed basement, in the domes, is parallel to the plate convergence vector. In the Panafrican nappes the displacement path splits into an orogen-parallel and an orogen-perpendicular component. Exhumation of the metamorphic domes is connected with orogen-parallel extension.
