Stress field during early magmatism in the Ali Sabieh Dome, Djibouti, SE Afar rift

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-66

  Sue, Christian ^a   Le Gall, Bernard ^a   Daoud, Ahmed Mohamed ^b  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^b ISERST   (Djibouti)

Author keywords

Afar triple junction; Ali Sabieh antiform; Brittle deformation; Doming, Djibouti; Extension; Paleostress inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901227865     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 18791956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.04.017     Document Type: Article

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