Length and timescales of rift faulting and magma intrusion: The afar rifting cycle from 2005 to present

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue , 2010, Pages 439-466

  Ebinger, Cynthia ^a   Ayele, Atalay ^b,c   Keir, Derek ^c   Rowland, Julie ^d   Yirgu, Gezahegn ^b   Wright, Tim ^c   Belachew, Manahloh ^a,b   Hamling, Ian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dike propagation; Extensional tectonics; Magmatic margin

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEVEES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DIKE PROPAGATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGMATIC MARGIN; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PRIMARY MECHANISM; VOLCANIC HAZARDS;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PETROLOGY; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SEISMIC HAZARD; SPREADING CENTER;

EID: 77953659984     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152333     Document Type: Article

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