Post-rifting relaxation in the Afar region, Ethiopia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Nooner, Scott L ^b   Bennati, Laura ^a   Calais, Eric ^a   Buck, W Roger ^b   Hamling, Ian J ^c   Wright, Tim J ^c   Lewi, Elias ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIKE INTRUSION; ETHIOPIA; MAGMA INJECTION; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE MOTIONS; STRESS CHANGES; UPPER MANTLE;

DEFORMATION; LEVEES; WATER INJECTION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETION; DIKE; GPS; MAGMA; MOHO; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; RIFTING; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

AFAR; AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 72049096610     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040502     Document Type: Article

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