Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting

L Michon, V Famin, X Quidelleur - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Many continental rifts are subjected to volcanism in tandem with rifting, which has raised a
long-standing debate about whether magmatism is the cause or the consequence of plate …

The seismo‐acoustics of submarine volcanic eruptions

G Tepp, RP Dziak - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many of the world's volcanoes are hidden beneath the ocean's surface where eruptions are
difficult to observe. However, seismo‐acoustic signals produced by these eruptions provide …

Drainage of a deep magma reservoir near Mayotte inferred from seismicity and deformation

S Cesca, J Letort, HNT Razafindrakoto, S Heimann… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The dynamics of magma deep in the Earth's crust are difficult to capture by geophysical
monitoring. Since May 2018, a seismically quiet area offshore of Mayotte in the western …

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 …

Redefining east African rift system kinematics

DS Stamps, C Kreemer, R Fernandes… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

The 2018-ongoing Mayotte submarine eruption: Magma migration imaged by petrological monitoring

C Berthod, E Médard, P Bachèlery, L Gurioli… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Deep-sea submarine eruptions are the least known type of volcanic activity, due to the
difficulty of detecting, monitoring, and sampling them. Following an intense seismic crisis in …

The Comoros archipelago: a right-lateral transform boundary between the Somalia and Lwandle plates

V Famin, L Michon, A Bourhane - Tectonophysics, 2020 - Elsevier
The origin of the Comoros archipelago in the Mozambique channel is the subject of a
longstanding controversy. This volcanic chain has been successively interpreted as a …

Mayotte seismic crisis: building knowledge in near real-time by combining land and ocean-bottom seismometers, first results

JM Saurel, E Jacques, C Aiken… - Geophysical Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The brutal onset of seismicity offshore Mayotte island North of the Mozambique Channel,
Indian Ocean, that occurred in May 2018 caught the population, authorities and scientific …

Very high-resolution satellite-derived bathymetry and habitat mapping using pleiades-1 and ICESat-2

A Le Quilleuc, A Collin, MF Jasinski, R Devillers - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate and reliable bathymetric data are needed for a wide diversity of marine research
and management applications. Satellite-derived bathymetry represents a time saving …

Nature of the crust beneath the islands of the Mozambique Channel: Constraints from receiver functions

A Dofal, FR Fontaine, L Michon, G Barruol… - Journal of African Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Starting in May 2018, a volcano-tectonic crisis occurred in the vicinity of Mayotte, a volcanic
island in the Comoros Archipelago in the Mozambique Channel. The origin of the volcanism …