Holocene extension direction along the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa

Terra Nova

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 191-197

  Acocella, V ^a   Korme, T ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HOLOCENE; KINEMATICS; NEOTECTONICS; RIFTING;

ETHIOPIA; ETHIOPIAN RIFT;

EID: 0036294309     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2002.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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