Surface wave tomography across Afar, Ethiopia: Crustal structure at a rift triple-junction zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Guidarelli, M ^a,b   Stuart, G ^a   Hammond, J O S ^c   Kendall, J M ^c   Ayele, A ^d   Belachew, M ^d,e  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVES; VOLCANOES;

ACTIVE REGIONS; BROADBAND STATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DYKE INTRUSION; ETHIOPIA; GROUP VELOCITIES; LOW VELOCITY REGION; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; LOWER CRUST; MAGMA INTRUSION; NORTHEAST AFRICA; PARTIAL MELT; PLATEAU REGION; S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SOMALIA; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHIC MAPS; TRIPLE-JUNCTIONS; UPPER CRUST; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DIKE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RIFT ZONE; SEISMICITY; SURFACE WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84855384865     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046840     Document Type: Article

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