Morphostructural development of the Eritrean rift flank (southern Red Sea) inferred from apatite fission track analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Abbate, Ernesto ^a   Balestrieri, Maria Laura ^b   Bigazzi, Giulio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apatite fission tracks; Denudation rates; Landscape evolution; Rift escarpment; Southern Red Sea; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BASIN EVOLUTION; FISSION TRACK DATING; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; OCEAN BASIN; RIFTING; TECTONICS;

ERITEAN RIFT; RED SEA;

EID: 0037542451     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Abul-Haggag, Y., A Contribution to the Physiography of Northern Ethiopia, 153 pp., Athlone, London, 1961.
2. Barnard, P. C., S. Tompson, M. A. Bastow, C. Ducreux, and G. Mathurin, Thermal maturity development and source-rock occurrence in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, J. Pet. Geol., 15, 173-186, 1992.
3. Bohannon, R. G., C. W. Naeser, D. L. Schmidt, and R. A. Zimmermann, The timing of uplift, volcanism and rifting peripheral to the Red Sea: A case for passive rifting?, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 1683-1701, 1989.
4. Brown, R. W., D. J. Rust, M. A. Summerfield, A. J. W. Gleadow, and M. C. J. De Wit, An early Cretaceous phase of accelerated erosion on the south western margin of Africa: Evidence from fission track analysis and the off-shore sedimentary record. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas., 17, 339-350, 1990.
5. Carlson, W. D., Mechanisms and kinetics of apatite fission track annealing, Am. Mineral., 75, 1120-1139, 1990.
6. Cochran, J. R., and F. Martinez, Evidence from the northern Red Sea on the transition from continental to oceanic rifting, Tectonophysics, 153, 25-53, 1988.
7. Crowley, K. D., M. Cameron, and R. L. Schaefer, Experimental studies of annealing of etched fission tracks in fluoroapatite, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 55, 1449-1465, 1991.
8. Dainelli, G., Geologia dell'Africa Orientale, 4 vols., Reale Accademia d'Italia, Rome, 1943.
9. Drury, S. A., S. P. Kelley, S. M. Berhe, R. E. L. Collier, and M. Abrha, Structures related to Red Sea evolution in northern Eritrea, Tectonics, 13, 1371-1380, 1994.
10. England, P., and P. Molnar, Surface uplift, uplift of rocks, and exhumation of rocks, Geology, 18, 1173-1177, 1990.
11. Fitzgerald, P. G., R. B. Sorkhabi, T. F. Redfield, and E. Stump, Uplift and denudation of the central Alaska Range: A case study in the use of apatite fission track thermochronology to determine absolute uplift parameters, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 20,175-20,191, 1995.
12. Galbraith, R. F., On statistical models for fission track count, Math. Geol., 13, 471-488, 1981.
13. Gallagher, K., Evolving temperature histories from apatite fission track data, Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett., 136, 421-435, 1995.
14. Gallagher, K., and R. Brown, The onshore record of passive margin evolution, J. Geol. Soc. London, 154, 451-457, 1997.
15. Gallagher, K., C. J. Hawkesworth, and M. S. M. Mantovani, The denudation history of the onshore continental margin of SE Brasil inferred from apatite fission track data, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 18,117-18,145, 1994.
16. Gallagher, K., C. Hawkesworth, and M. Mantovani, Denudation, fission track analysis and the long-term evolution of passive margin topography: Application to the Southeast Brazilian margin, J. South. Am. Earth Sci., 8, 65-77, 1995.
17. Gallagher, K., R. Brown, and C. Johnson, Fission track analysis and its applications to geological problems, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 26, 519-572, 1998.
18. Garland, C. R., Geology of the Adigrat area, in Geological Survey of Ethiopia, Memoir 1, 51 pp., Berhaneana Selam, Addis Ababa, 1980.
19. Ghebreab, W., and C. J. Talbot, Red Sea extension influenced by Pan-African tectonic grain in eastern Eritrea, J. Struct. Geol., 22, 931-946, 2000.
20. Gilchrist, A. R., H. Kooi, and C. Beaumont, Post-Gondwana geomorphic evolution of southwestern Africa: Implications for the controls on landscape development from observations and numerical experiments, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 12,211-12,228, 1994.
21. Gleadow, A. J. W., Fission track dating methods: What are real alternatives?, Nucl. Tracks, 5, 3-14, 1981.
22. Gleadow, A. J. W., and I. R. Duddy, A natural long-term track annealing experiment for apatite, Nucl. Tracks, 5, 169-174, 1981.
23. Gleadow, A. J. W., and P. G. Fitzgerald, Uplift history and structure of the Transantarctic Mountains: New evidence from fission track dating of basement apatites in the Dry Valleys area, southern Victoria Land, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 82, 1-14, 1987.
24. Gleadow, A. J. W., I. R. Duddy, P. F. Green, and J. F. Lovering, Confined track lengths in apatite: A diagnostic tool for thermal history analysis, Contrib. Mineral Petrol., 94, 405-415, 1986.
25. Green, P. F., I. R. Duddy, A. J. W. Gleadow, P. R. Tingate, and G. M. Laslett, Thermal annealing of fission tracks in apatite, I. A qualitative description, Chem. Geol., 59, 237-253, 1986.
26. Hurford, A. J., Standardization of fission track dating calibration: Recommendation by the Fission Track Working Group of the I.U.G.S. Subcommission on Geochronology, Chem. Geol., 80, 171-178, 1990.
27. Laslett, G. M., P. F. Green, I. R. Duddy, and A. J. W. Gleadow, Thermal annealing of fission tracks in apatite, 2, A quantitative analysis, Chem. Geol., 65, 1-13, 1987.
28. Makris, J., C. H. Henke, F. Egloff, and T. Akamaluk, The gravity field of the Red Sea and East Africa, Tectonophysics, 198, 369-381, 1991.
29. Menzies, M., K. Gallagher, A. Yelland, and A. J. Hurford, Volcanic and nonvolcanic rifted margins of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden: Crustal cooling and margin evolution in Yemen, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 61, 2511-2527, 1997.
30. Merla, G., and E. Minucci, Missione geologica del Tigrai, I, La serie dei Terreni, in Reale Accademia d'Italia, Centro Studi, 362 pp., A.O.I., Rome, 1938.
31. Mitchell, D. J. W., R. B. Allen, W. Salama, and A. Abouzakm, Tectonostratigraphic framework and hydrocarbon potential of the Red Sea, J. Petrol. Geol., 15, 189-210, 1992.
32. Mohr, P., Lithology and structure of the Precambrian rocks of Eritrea, in Evolution and Mineralization of the Arabian-Nubian Shield, Bull. Inst. Appl. Geol., vol. 2, edited by S. A. Tahoun, pp. 7-15, King Abdul Aziz Univ., Jeddah, 1979.
33. Mohr, P., The Asmara dike swarm, Eritrean Plateau; physical parameters of an off-rift olivine dolerite injection zone, Acta Vulcanol., 11, 177-181, 1999.
34. Montanaro Gallitelli, E., Ricerche sull'età di alcuni depositi insulari e marginali del Mar Rosso, Paleontol. Ital., 39, 215-258, 1939.
35. Morgan, P., F. K. Boulos, S. F. Hennin, A. A. El-Sheriff, A. A. El-Sayeed, N. Z. Basta, and Y. S. Melek, Heat flow in eastern Egypt: The thermal signature of a continental breakup, J. Geodyn., 4, 107-131, 1985.
36. Omar, G. I., and M. S. Steckler, Fission track evidence on the initial rifting of the Red Sea: Two pulses, no propagation, Science, 270, 1341-1344, 1995.
37. Steckler, M. S., and G. I. Omar, Controls on erosional retreat of the uplifted rift flanks of the Gulf of Suez and northern Red Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 12,159-12,173, 1994.
38. Summerfield, M. A., Sub-aerial denudation of passive margins: Regional elevation versus local relief models, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 102, 460-469, 1991.
39. Talbot, C. J., and W. Ghebreab, Red Sea detachment and basement core complexes in Eritrea, Geology, 25, 653-658, 1997.
40. Wagner, G. A., A. J. W. Gleadow, and P. G. Fitzgerald, The significance of the partial annealing zone in apatite fission-track analysis: Projected track length measurements and uplift chronology of the Transantarctic Mountains, Chem. Geol., 79, 295-305, 1989.
41. Zuffardi-Comerci, R., Corallari neogenici del Sahel eritreo, Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, 71, 1-15, 1936.