Active or passive rifting in Ethiopia? Contribution from the study of peridotitic xenoliths from the Tana lake area;Rifting actif ou passif en Éthiopie? Éléments de réponse apportés par l'étude des xénolites péridotitiques de la région du lac Tana

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 324, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1009-1016

  Roger, Stéphan ^a   Pik, Raphaël ^a   Dautria, Jean Marie ^b   Coulon, Christian ^a   Yirgu, Gezahegn ^c   Ayalew, Dereje ^c,d   Legros, Pascale ^a  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ethiopian Rift; Plume; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

TANA;

LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; OLIGOCENE; QUATERNARY; RIFTING; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0030730176     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1251-8050(97)83986-9     Document Type: Article

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