Afar Links
Afar Links
Ethiopia Links
BBC website: Ethiopia: Country profile
Overview of Ethiopia and many more links
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072164.stm
BBC website: Timeline Ethiopia
A chronology of key events
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072219.stm
Ethiopian Embassy website
News and information on Ethiopia
http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/
Cyber Ethiopia
Information and links about Ethiopia
http://www.cyberethiopia.com/home/
WHO Ethiopia pages
Information on WHO’s work in Ethiopia
http://www.who.int/countries/eth/en/
United Nations Development Programme in Ethiopia
Information on the UNDP in Ethiopia
http://www.et.undp.org/
Afar Friends in Sweden
An NGO aiming to spread information about the Afar people living in the
Horn of Africa
http://www.afarfriends.org/Start-English.htm
Afar Pastoralist Development Association
Afar group providing education and raising awareness of the needs of the
pastoral community
http://www.afarpastoralist.org/
Geology Links
EAGLE - the Ethiopian Afar Geoscientific Lithospheric Experiment
Website on previous work on the geology of the Afar region. Many of the
scientists involved in the Afar Rift Consortium also worked on EAGLE
http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~earidb/EAGLE.htm
Dynamic Earth
School of Earth and Environment teaching resource on plate tectonics and
the structure of the Earth
http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/structure/dynamicearth/index.htm
Your Planet Earth
The Geologists’ Association website with a series of free to use
powerpoint presentations for teachers of earth sciences.
http://www.earth4567.com/
Glossary of geological terms
Lots of definitions of geological terms from the University of California
Museum of Palaeontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary_2.html
Plate tectonics
History and mechanisms of plate tectonics including animations from University
of California Museum of Palaeontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html
Plate tectonics
US Geological Survey – simplified version of plate tectonics including
information on the structure of the Earth
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/pltec/pltec1.html#crust
Plate tectonics
US Geological Survey: This Dynamic Earth a detailed online book on plate
tectonics
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html
Weekly volcanic activity report – Smithsonian Institute/USGS
Updated every Wednesday with news of volcanic activity from around the
world
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/
Global Volcanism Program
Information on the world’s active and recently active volcanoes
from the Smithsonian Institute
http://www.volcano.si.edu/index.cfm
FAQ about volcanoes
What, why, how, when and where. Information on volcanoes from the US Geological
Survey
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Outreach/AboutVolcanoes/framework.html
Glossary of volcano and related terminology
Definitions of volcanic terms from the US Geological Survey
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/volcano_terminology.html
NASA images of Afar, Ethiopia and surrounding regions
NASA – satellite view of Afar depression
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=17296
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption_direct.jsp?photoId=STS052-153-212
NASA – thermal infrared, Afar triangle
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=53
NASA – Nabro and Mallahle volcanoes
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04953
NASA – Natural Hazards – Volcanic activity at Manda
Hararo, Ethiopia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14473
NASA – series of images of Ethiopia and surrounding region
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2064
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