Twenty-five years of geodetic measurements along the Tadjoura-Asal rift system, Djibouti, East Africa

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Vigny, Christophe ^a   de Chabalier, Jean Bernard ^b   Ruegg, Jean Claude ^b   Huchon, Philippe ^c   Feigl, Kurt L ^d   Cattin, Rodolphe ^a   Asfaw, Laike ^e   Kanbari, Khaled ^f  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^f SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ARABIAN PLATE; DEFORMATION; GEODETIC DATUM; GPS; RIFTING; SEISMICITY; TRIANGULATION; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; DJIBOUTI [EAST AFRICA]; EAST AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34548401191     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003230     Document Type: Article

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