Major alkaline flood basalts erupt over the Levantine Basin (LE) (207-203Ma, Segev (2005), associated with an unconformity of Norian to Hettangian age (Gardosh et al, 2010, 2011). Early Jurassic volcanism is interpreted on seismic over the Eratosthenes Plateau (EP, Papadimitriou et al, 2018). Rifting is propagating from Israel through Sinai into parts of the Western Desert (WD, Moustafa, 2020) and to the Sinai Shear Zone (SSZ, Moustafa et al, 2013) .

Rifting is established over the future Central Atlantic and Ligurian (Alpine) oceans (Handy et al, 2010). This requires initiation of the Azores-Gibraltar Transform (AGT). The intensit has somewhat decreased since the Carnian in the Newark (NE), Nova Scotia (NS), Atlassic (AT) and Streppanosa rifts (ST), though with a pulse in Morocco (Frizon et al, 2008, Escoca et al, 2021). 

 The distribution of CAMP (Central Atlantic) volcanics is after McHone (2000). On the American side, a magnetic anomaly is tied to the emplacement of widespread seaward dipping reflectors (SDRs) (Davis et al, 2018). However, there are currently no reports of SDRs on the African margin north of Senegal. The weaker magnetic anomaly seen on the African margin (von Hinsbergen et al, 2020) lies in too proximal a position to tie to SDRs. More deep seismic studies may tell us that margins may turn out to be more complicated.

The ‘Karoo’ rifts are now inactive (Macgregor (2018).  Over the Zambian and Tanzanian rifts, an unconformity is seen between Triassic and Late Cretaceous, capping inversion structures that increase in intensity to the SW. The lack of any displacement on Pleinsbachian dyke swarms suggests this inversion could be placed in this time period. This inversion could indicate a reversal of the STASS wrench faults.

Breakup of the Eastern Mediterranean is now well established. A large ?breakup unconformity is seen in A1-28, Cyrenaica (CY) separating Hettangian shallow marine and Callovian deep gravity deposits (D. Boote, proprietary work within Lynx GIS, 2010). A similar unconformity is interpreted on seismic on the Eratosthenes Plateau (EP, Papadimitriou et al, 2018). The Azores-Gibraltar transform (AGT) must remain active, with the geometry of the proposed system requiring the Gulf of Sirt (GoS) to be an extensional NW-SE trending rifted margin connecting two transforms. This is supported by assessments of the stress direction by ENI in this region (Bruno et al, 2024) and by the paleogeography over Sicily at this time (Di Stefano et al 2015). The different orientations of the Ionian spreading ridge to that off Israel and Egypt suggests that the Eastern Mediterranean is perhaps best treated as two oceans of slightly different age of initiation. This is supported by the Middle Jurassic age of flood basalts in Maltese wells (MA : Reeh and Aifa, 2008),

Many authors believe that the Western Desert (WD) rifts of Egypt were initiated at this time (e.g. Moustafa, 2020) , though Bosworth (2022) does not think this occurred till the Late Jurassic. These are reported to have a  transtensional aspect (e.g. the Alamein Basin),  which is speculated to tie to the period of spreading of the Eastern Mediterranean (Bosworth (2022).  The analogue proposed is the relationship of Honduran Borderland rifts to the spreading of the Cayman Trough (Sanchez et al, 2016). 

The Somali Basin is now opening, with oblique spreading extending to Tanzania and perhaps northern Mozambique (Reeves, 2018). A major transgression is observed in many of these basins around Bajocian times, which may mark break up (Macgregor (2018)). A volcanic margin is forming over the Mozambique margin. Figuerido et al (PESGB presentation, 2021) interprets first oceanic crust at 170Ma in the Angoche (AN) Basin and offshore Zambezi (ZA) , which was was abandoned in favour of more outboard spreading 10My later, leaving the Beira High (BH) as a stranded block. Rifting of the Agulhas Basins in South Africa may be commencing in the deepest half graben of the Gamtoos (GA) Basin (Mcmillan et al, 1997).