The Ethiopia Afar Geoscientific Lithospheric Experiment (EAGLE): Probing the transition from continental rifting to incipient seafloor spreading

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 478, Issue , 2011, Pages 51-76

  Bastow, Ian D ^a   Keir, Derek ^b,d   Daly, Eve ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FLOODS; MAGNETOTELLURICS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; MAGNETOTELLURIC STUDIES; MAGNETOTELLURIC SURVEYS; MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRUSTAL THINNING; FLOOD BASALT; HOLOCENE; HOT SPOT; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MIOCENE; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE;

ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS;

EID: 79953056767     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2478(04)     Document Type: Article

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