Variations in melt emplacement beneath the northern East African Rift from radial anisotropy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117150
Abstract: Abstract Where and how melt is stored in the crust and uppermost mantle is important for understanding the dynamics of magmatic plumbing systems and the evolution of rifting. We determine shear velocity and radial anisotropy… read more here.
Keywords: african rift; rift; radial anisotropy; east african ... See more keywords
Using Ambient Noise to Image the Northern East African Rift
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DOI: 10.1029/2018gc008129
Abstract: The northern East African Rift (EAR) is a unique location where we observe continental rifting in the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) transitioning to incipient seafloor spreading in Afar. Here we present a 3‐D absolute shear… read more here.
Keywords: african rift; mer; velocity; rift ... See more keywords
Birth of the East African Rift System: Nucleation of magmatism and strain in the Turkana Depression
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DOI: 10.1130/g46468.1
Abstract: The Turkana Depression of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia contains voluminous plume-related basalts that mark the onset of the Paleogene–recent East African Rift System (EARS) at ca. 45 Ma. Thus, the Turkana Depression is crucial… read more here.
Keywords: east african; african rift; rift; basin ... See more keywords
Redefining East African Rift System kinematics
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DOI: 10.1130/g47985.1
Abstract: East African Rift System plate geometries and surface motions are some of the least constrained in the context of global plate motion models. In this study, we used GPS data to constrain Somalian plate rotation… read more here.
Keywords: system; east african; african rift; rift ... See more keywords