Control of rift obliquity on the evolution and segmentation of the main Ethiopian rift

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 258-262

  Corti, Giacomo ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

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EID: 65349146437     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo160     Document Type: Article

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