The Main Ethiopian Rift is a key sector of the East African Rift System that connects the Afar
depression, at Red Sea–Gulf of Aden junction, with the Turkana depression and Kenya Rift …

Continental extension may occur in two main different modes, narrow and wide rifting, which
mainly differ in the width of the deformed region. A third mechanism, the core complex, has …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

This overview paper considers the East African rift system (EARS) as an intra-continental
ridge system, comprising an axial rift. It describes the structural organization in three …

The Hata Member of the Bouri Formation is defined for Pliocene sedimentary outcrops in the
Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. The Hata Member is dated to 2.5 million years ago and has …

Mechanical processes largely control the along-axis segmentation of continental rifts;
however, asthenospheric processes strongly influence the along-axis segmentation of mid …

Seafloor spreading centres show a regular along-axis segmentation thought to be produced
by a segmented magma supply in the passively upwelling mantle,. On the other hand …

The entire African Plate in both its continental and oceanic areas has evolved in distinctive
and unusual ways over the past roughly 30 million years. I attribute these peculiarities to the …

Models for the formation of the archetypal rift–rift–rift triple junction in the Afar depression
have assumed the synchronous development of the Red Sea–Aden–East African rift …

Most of the Earth's crust is created along 60,000 km of mid-ocean ridge system. Here,
tectonic plates spread apart and, in doing so, gradually build up stress. This stress is …