Distribution of Quaternary deformation in the central Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Agostini, Andrea ^a,b   Bonini, Marco ^c   Corti, Giacomo ^c   Sani, Federico ^a   Manetti, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; RADIOMETRY;

BOUNDARY FAULTS; CONTINENTAL RIFT; EAST AFRICA; FAULT-SLIP DATUM; FIELD STRUCTURAL DATA; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT; PLATE KINEMATICS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; TIME-SPACE DISTRIBUTION;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; QUATERNARY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RIFT ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIAN RIFT;

EID: 80051632581     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002833     Document Type: Article

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