September 2005 mega-dike emplacement in the Manda-Harraro nascent oceanic rift (Afar depression)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Ayele, Atalay ^a,b   Keir, Derek ^b   Ebinger, Cynthia ^c   Wright, Tim J ^b   Stuart, Graham W ^b   Buck, W Roger ^d   Jacques, Eric ^e   Ogubazghi, Ghebrebrhan ^f   Sholan, Jamal ^g  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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

^f Eritrea Institute of Technology   (Eritrea)

^g Yemen National Seismological Observatory Center   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE RATE; COMPLEX INTERACTION; DIKE PROPAGATION; MAGMA SOURCES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RIFT ZONES; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE; SPACETIME; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT; VOLCANIC COMPLEX;

MINES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

LEVEES;

DEFORMATION; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; MAGMA; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY;

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

EID: 72149109792     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039605     Document Type: Article

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