Constraints for timing of extensional tectonics in the western margin of the Red Sea in Eritrea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 107-119

  Ghebreab, Woldai ^a   Carter, Andrew ^b   Hurford, Anthony J ^b   Jouniaux, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ASMARA   (Eritrea)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eritrea; Extension; Fission track dating; Red Sea; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; RIFTING; TECTONIC SETTING; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

ERITREA; RED SEA;

EID: 0036306698     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00621-0     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Lithospheric structure of a nascent spreading ridge inferred from gravity data: The western Gulf of Aden
2. A new kinematic approach for the Danakil block using a digital elevation model representation
3. A brief Oligocene period of flood volcanism in Yemen: Implications for the duration and rate of continental flood volcanism at the Afro-Arabian triple junction
4. Timing of the Ethiopian flood basalt event and implications for plume birth and global change
5. Cenozoic magmatism throughout Africa
6. Earliest magmatism in Ethiopia: Evidence for two mantle plumes in one flood basalt province
7. The timing of uplift, volcanism and rifting peripheral to the Red Sea. A case for passive rifting
8. The timing of crustal magmatism, uplift and crustal extension - Preliminary observations from Yemen
9. Initiation and evolution of the Oligo-Miocene rift basins of southwestern Europe: Contribution of deep seismic profiling
10. Fission track evidence on the initial rifting of the Red Sea: Two pulse, no propagation
11. Transition from passive to active rifting: Relative importance of asthenospheric doming and passive extension of the lithosphere
12. Red Sea extension influenced by Pan-African tectonic grain in eastern Eritrea
13. Volcanic and non-volcanic rifted margins of the Red Sea and gulf of Aden: Crustal cooling and margin evolution in Yemen
14. Late Oligocene volcanism and extension in the southern Red Sea Hills, Sudan
15. Palaeogeographic-palaeotectonic Atlas of North-eastern Africa
16. Petroleum exploration in the Ethiopian Red Sea
17. Adjacent structures of Ethiopia, that portion of the Red Sea coast including Dahlak Kebir Island and Gulf of Zula
18. Structures related to Red Sea evolution in northern Eritrea
19. Tectonics of the Red Sea region reassessed
20. Red Sea detachment and basement core complexes in Eritrea
21. Fission-track analysis of samples from Alboran Sea basement, ODP Site 976
22. Standardization of fission track dating calibration: Recommendation by the Fission Track Working Group of the I.U.G.S. subcommission on geochronology
23. Statistical models for mixed fission track ages
24. On statistical methods of fission-track counts
25. Resolving denudational histories in orogenic belts with apatite fission track thermochronology and structural data. An example from southern Spain
26. Evolving temperature histories from apatite FT data