Temporal compositional variation of syn-rift rhyolites along the western margin of the southern Red Sea and northern Main Ethiopian Rift

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 259, Issue , 2006, Pages 121-130

  Ayalew, Dere ^a   Ebinger, C J ^b   Bourdon, E ^b,c   Wolfenden, E ^b   Yirgu, G ^a   Grassineau, N ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FELSIC ROCK; FLOOD BASALT; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; OLIGOCENE; RHYOLITE; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AFAR; AFRICA; ARABIAN SEA; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIAN RIFT; GULF OF ADEN; INDIAN OCEAN; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33745765728     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.259.01.10     Document Type: Article

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