Massive and prolonged deep carbon emissions associated with continental rifting

H Lee, JD Muirhead, TP Fischer, CJ Ebinger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Carbon from Earth's interior is thought to be released to the atmosphere mostly via
degassing of CO2 from active volcanoes,,,. CO2 can also escape along faults away from …

Earthquake distribution patterns in Africa: Their relationship to variations in lithospheric and geological structure, and their rheological implications

TJ Craig, JA Jackson, K Priestley… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We use teleseismic waveform inversion, along with depth phase analysis, to constrain the
centroid depths and source parameters of large African earthquakes. The majority of seismic …

Rheology of the continental lithosphere: Progress and new perspectives

WP Chen, SH Hung, TL Tseng, M Brudzinski, Z Yang… - Gondwana …, 2012 - Elsevier
While the surface of Tibet is undergoing pervasive pure shear, stable terranes, straddling
subsurface sutures, remain in the sub-continental lithospheric mantle (SCLM), attesting to its …

[PDF][PDF] The unexpected Mayotte 2018–2020 seismic sequence: a reappraisal of the regional seismicity of the Comoros

D Bertil, N Mercury, C Doubre… - Comptes …, 2021 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé The Mayotte seismic sequence that started on 10 May 2018, with a main shock of
magnitude Mw 5.9 on May 15, followed by a major offshore volcanic activity, raises several …

Earthquakes along the East African Rift System: A multiscale, system‐wide perspective

Z Yang, WP Chen - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
On the basis of a comprehensive data set of precisely determined depths of 121 large to
moderate‐sized earthquakes along and near the entire East African Rift System (EARS) …

Earthquake nucleation in the lower crust by local stress amplification

LR Campbell, L Menegon, Å Fagereng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Deep intracontinental earthquakes are poorly understood, despite their potential to cause
significant destruction. Although lower crustal strength is currently a topic of debate, dry …

The earthquake cycle in the dry lower continental crust: insights from two deeply exhumed terranes (Musgrave Ranges, Australia and Lofoten, Norway)

L Menegon, L Campbell… - … transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper discusses the results of field-based geological investigations of exhumed rocks
exposed in the Musgrave Ranges (Central Australia) and in Nusfjord (Lofoten, Norway) that …

Fault‐magma interactions during early continental rifting: Seismicity of the M agadi‐N atron‐M anyara basins, A frica

A Weinstein, SJ Oliva, CJ Ebinger… - Geochemistry …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Although magmatism may occur during the earliest stages of continental rifting, its role in
strain accommodation remains weakly constrained by largely 2‐D studies. We analyze …

[PDF][PDF] The time scales of continental rifting: Implications for global processes

CJ Ebinger, J Van Wijk, D Keir - … Society of America Special Paper 500, 2013 - flore.unifi.it
The rifting cycle initiates with stress buildup, release as earthquakes and/or magma
intrusions/eruptions, and visco-elastic rebound, multiple episodes of which combine to …

Variations in the seismogenic thickness of East Africa

TJ Craig, JA Jackson - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The well‐established variation in the depth of earthquakes along both branches of the East
African Rift System offers an opportunity to probe the controls on the depth‐extent of …