Maselli, VittorioIacopini, DavidEbinger, Cynthia J.Tewari, Sugandhade Haas, HenkWade, Bridget S.Pearson, Paul N.Francis, Malcomvan Vliet, ArjanRichards, BillKroon, Dick2021-07-022021-07-022020-07-10Maselli, V, Iacopini, D, Ebinger, C J, Tewari, S, de Haas, H, Wade, B S, Pearson, P N, Francis, M, van Vliet, A, Richards, B & Kroon, D 2020, 'Large-scale mass wasting in the western Indian Ocean constrains onset of East African rifting', Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 3456. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17267-52041-1723https://hdl.handle.net/2164/16767Funding Information: We are grateful to the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC), Wes-ternGeco and Schlumberger, Royal Dutch Shell, and Shell Tanzania for giving access to the seismic and well data and allowing the publication of this work. We would also like to thank Schlumberger for providing academic licenses of the seismic interpretation software Petrel, and J. van Wijk for sharing complementary work in review. The Paleogene GLObal Warming events (GLOW) cruise, onboard of RV Pelagia, was funded by the ESF EUROCORES program (NWO project number 855.01.122). V.M. was supported by the Ocean Frontier Institute, through an award from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, and by the NSERC Discovery Grant. C.J.E. work was supported by NSF grant 1734884 (Malawi Rift project with new compilations). B.S.W. was supported by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions/US Science Support Program and NERC grant NE/G014817. P.N.P. was supported by NERC-UK-IODP grant NE/F523293/1.108897720engQE GeologyGeneral ChemistryGeneral Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular BiologyGeneral Physics and AstronomyNatural Environment Research Council (NERC)NE/G014817NE/F523293/1OtherSupplementary InformationQEJournal article10.1038/s41467-020-17267-5http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087779163&partnerID=8YFLogxK111