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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