[HTML][HTML] Overview of geothermal resources utilization in Ethiopia: Potentials, opportunities, and challenges

NE Benti, TA Woldegiyorgis, CA Geffe, GS Gurmesa… - Scientific African, 2023 - Elsevier
Geothermal energy can be used to produce electricity, heat or cool buildings, and other
industrial uses. It is a clean and sustainable energy source. It has generated a lot of interest …

Volcanic activity and hazard in the East African Rift Zone

J Biggs, A Ayele, TP Fischer, K Fontijn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, multidisciplinary studies have unearthed a rich history of
volcanic activity and unrest in the densely-populated East African Rift System, providing new …

Magmatic processes in the East African Rift system: insights from a 2015–2020 Sentinel‐1 InSAR survey

F Albino, J Biggs - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The East African Rift System (EARS) is composed of around 78 Holocene
volcanoes, but relatively little is known about their past and present activity. This lack of …

Contrasting styles of post-caldera volcanism along the Main Ethiopian Rift: Implications for contemporary volcanic hazards

K Fontijn, K McNamara, AZ Tadesse, DM Pyle… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Main Ethiopian Rift (MER,~ 7–9° N) is the type example of a magma-assisted
continental rift. The rift axis is populated with regularly spaced silicic caldera complexes and …

Pre-eruptive storage conditions and magmatic evolution of the Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye volcanic system, Main Ethiopian Rift

AZ Tadesse, K Fontijn, L Caricchi, F Begue… - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye is a Late Quaternary volcanic system in the Main
Ethiopian Rift, characterised by products of both explosive and effusive volcanic eruptions …

Stretching, shaking, inflating: volcanic-tectonic interactions at a rifting silicic caldera

JD Muirhead, F Illsley-Kemp, SJ Barker… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Silicic caldera volcanoes are frequently situated in regions of tectonic extension, such as
continental rifts, and are subject to periods of unrest and/or eruption that can be triggered by …

The late Quaternary eruptive history of Meru volcano, northern Tanzania

M Kisaka, K Fontijn, C Shemsanga, I Tomašek… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mt. Meru, in the northern Tanzania divergence zone within the East African Rift System, is a
historically active volcano, with its last eruption in 1910 CE. The flank deposits of Meru are …

Eruption frequency and magnitude in a geothermally active continental rift: The Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye volcanic complex, Main Ethiopian Rift

AZ Tadesse, K Fontijn, AA Melaku, EF Gebru… - Journal of volcanology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many Quaternary silicic volcanoes in the Main Ethiopian Rift pose a potential risk due to the
poorly known eruptive histories of the volcanoes in combination with a high population …

The Impact of Climate‐Driven Lake Level Changes on Mantle Melting in Continental Rifts

L Xue, JD Muirhead, R Moucha… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate cycles fundamentally control surface processes that affect the distribution of water
and sediment, and their associated loads, across the Earth's surface. Here, we use a …

Event trees and epistemic uncertainty in long‐term volcanic hazard assessment of rift volcanoes: the example of Aluto (Central Ethiopia)

P Tierz, B Clarke, ES Calder… - Geochemistry …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aluto is a peralkaline rhyolitic caldera located in a highly populated area in central Ethiopia.
Its postcaldera eruptive activity has mainly consisted of self‐similar, pumice‐cone‐building …