Young rift kinematics in the Tadjoura rift, western Gulf of Aden, Republic of Djibouti

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Daoud, Mohamed A ^a,b   Le Gall, Bernard ^b   Maury, René C ^b   Rolet, Joël ^b   Huchon, Philippe ^c   Guillou, Hervé ^d  

^a ISERST   (Djibouti)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^c Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; REMOTE SENSING; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

AGE DATA; ASAL-GHOUBBET RIFT; BOUNDARY FAULTS; DJIBOUTI; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT DISTURBANCE; FAULT NETWORKS; GULF OF ADEN; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SOMALIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL INHERITANCE; STRUCTURAL STYLES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; GEOSTATISTICS; GRABEN; KINEMATICS; RIFTING; TRANSFORM FAULT;

AFAR; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SEA; DJIBOUTI [EAST AFRICA]; GULF OF ADEN; INDIAN OCEAN; SOMALIA;

CHELON;

EID: 78651327771     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002614     Document Type: Article

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