[HTML][HTML] Tectonostratigraphic evolution and significance of the Afar Depression

V Rime, A Foubert, J Ruch, T Kidane - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Afar Depression is a unique place on Earth where active rift processes can be
directly observed. It is believed to be close to continental breakup. The Afar hotspot has a …

Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion

N Feuillet, S Jorry, WC Crawford, C Deplus… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Volcanic eruptions shape Earth's surface and provide a window into deep Earth processes.
How the primary asthenospheric melts form, pond and ascend through the lithosphere is …

A review of tectonic models for the rifted margin of Afar: Implications for continental break-up and passive margin formation

F Zwaan, G Corti, D Keir, F Sani - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The Afar region represents a unique opportunity for the study of ongoing rift development
and the various phases of continental break-up. In this work we discuss the geological and …

[图书][B] Volcano-tectonic processes

V Acocella - 2021 - Springer
Among the various university courses I took for my geoscience degree, volcanology and
structural geology motivated me by far the most. Volcanoes and deformed rocks are indeed …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous rift-scale inflation of a deep crustal sill network in Afar, East Africa

A La Rosa, C Pagli, H Wang, F Sigmundsson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Decades of studies at divergent plate margins have revealed networks of magmatic sills at
the crust-mantle boundary. However, a lack of direct observations of deep magma motion …

Kinematics and deformation of the southern Red Sea region from GPS observations

R Viltres, S Jónsson, J Ruch, C Doubre… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The present-day tectonics of the southern Red Sea region is complicated by the presence of
the overlapping Afar and southern Red Sea rifts as well as the uncertain kinematics and …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of complex volcanic plumbing on the nature of seismicity in the developing magmatic natron rift, Tanzania

MC Reiss, JD Muirhead, AS Laizer, F Link… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Constraining the architecture of complex 3D volcanic plumbing systems within active rifts,
and their impact on rift processes, is critical for examining the interplay between faulting …

Structural analysis of the Western Afar Margin, East Africa: Evidence for multiphase rotational rifting

F Zwaan, G Corti, F Sani, D Keir, AA Muluneh… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Afar region in East Africa represents a key location to study continental
breakup. We present an integrated structural analysis of the Western Afar Margin (WAM) …

Rift interaction zones and the stages of rift linkage in active segmented continental rift systems

F Kolawole, MC Firkins, TS Al Wahaibi, EA Atekwana… - Basin …, 2021 - earthdoc.org
Although much is known about the interaction of faulting and sedimentation within the
basins of active segmented continental rift systems, little is known about these processes …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing 60 years of earthquake swarms in the southern Red Sea, Afar and the Gulf of Aden

J Ruch, D Keir, L Passarelli, D Di Giacomo… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Earthquake swarms occur sporadically at divergent plate boundaries but their recurrence
over multiple decades and relation to magmatic spreading activity remain poorly …