Oligocene regional denudation of the northern Afar dome: Pre- and syn-breakup stages of the Afro-Arabian plate

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1871-1897

  Avni, Yoav ^a   Segev, Amit ^a   Ginat, Hanan ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFAR PLUMES; CLASTICS; COMBINED EFFECT; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CRUSTAL DOMES; DEAD SEA; DEBRIS FLOWS; EARLY OLIGOCENE; FLUVIAL EROSION; GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; INITIAL STAGES; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PRECAMBRIAN; RED SEA; ROCK UNITS; TECTONIC DEVELOPMENT; TWO STAGE MODEL;

DEBRIS; SLOW LIGHT; STRATIGRAPHY;

DOMES;

ARABIAN PLATE; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; DENUDATION; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PRECAMBRIAN; RIFTING; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

DEAD SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 84871106251     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30634.1     Document Type: Article

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