Geology of Ethiopia: a review and geomorphological perspectives

E Abbate, P Bruni, M Sagri - Landscapes and landforms of Ethiopia, 2015 - Springer
The Ethiopian region records about one billion years of geological history. The first event
was the closure of the Mozambique ocean between West and East Gondwana with the …

The Cenozoic magmatism of East-Africa: Part I—Flood basalts and pulsed magmatism

TO Rooney - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Cenozoic magmatism in East Africa results from the interplay between lithospheric
extension and material upwelling from the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province …

African land mammal ages

JA Van Couvering, E Delson - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

[HTML][HTML] The uplift of the East Africa-Arabia swell

A Sembroni, C Faccenna, TW Becker, P Molin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Africa-Arabia topographic swell is an anomalously high-elevation region
of~ 4000 km long (from southern Ethiopia to Jordan) and~ 1500 km wide (from Egypt to …

The Cenozoic magmatism of East Africa: Part II–Rifting of the mobile belt

TO Rooney - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the foundational role East Africa has played in the advancement of our
understanding of continental rifting, there remains substantial ambiguity as to how …

[图书][B] The Nile Basin: Quaternary geology, geomorphology and prehistoric environments

M Williams - 2019 - books.google.com
The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years.
However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this …

Volcanic passive margins and break-up processes in the southern Red Sea

F Chauvet, L Geoffroy, B Le Gall, M Jaud - Gondwana Research, 2023 - Elsevier
We have mapped Oligocene to Quaternary volcanic sequences, emplaced across the Afar
magmatic province (AMP: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Yemen), by using 50 cm resolution …

From initiation to termination: a petrostratigraphic tour of the Ethiopian Low-Ti Flood Basalt Province

SR Krans, TO Rooney, J Kappelman, G Yirgu… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2018 - Springer
Continental flood basalts (CFBs), thought to preserve the magmatic record of an impinging
mantle plume head, offer spatial and temporal insights into melt generation processes in …

Initial Cenozoic magmatic activity in East Africa: new geochemical constraints on magma distribution within the Eocene continental flood basalt province

RA Steiner, TO Rooney, G Girard, N Rogers… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The initial interaction between material rising from the African Large Low Shear Velocity
Province and the African lithosphere manifests as the Eocene continental large igneous …

Recharge–discharge relations of groundwater in volcanic terrain of semi-humid tropical highlands of Ethiopia: the case of Infranz Springs, in the Upper Blue Nile

F Nigate, M Van Camp, A Yenehun, AS Belay… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The major springs in the Infranz catchment are a significant source of water for Bahir Dar
City and nearby villages, while sustaining the Infranz River and the downstream wetlands …