The Ziway-Shala lake basin system, Main Ethiopian Rift: Influence of volcanism, tectonics, and climatic forcing on basin formation and sedimentation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 150, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 135-177

  Le Turdu, Caroline ^a,j   Tiercelin, Jean Jacques ^a   Gibert, Elisabeth ^b   Travi, Yves ^c   Lezzar, Kiram Eddine ^a   Richert, Jean Paul ^d   Massault, Marc ^b   Gasse, Françoise ^e   Bonnefille, Raymonde ^e   Decobert, Michel ^e   Gensous, Bernard ^f   Jeudy, Vincent ^a   Tamrat, Endale ^e   Mohammed, Mohammed Umer ^g   Martens, Koen ^h   Atnafu, Balemwal ⁱ   Chernet, Tesfaye ^c   Williamson, David ^e   Taieb, Maurice ^e  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^d CEREGE ^*  (France)

^e CEREGE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^g ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^h ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^j Elf Petroleum Norge AS   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Ethiopia; Lake level; Palaeoclimate; Rift tectonics; Sedimentation; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CLIMATE FORCING; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS; VOLCANISM;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0033165898     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00220-X     Document Type: Article

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