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image from Ferguson et al 2010Recent rift-related volcanism in Afar, Ethiopia (PDF file). D.J. Ferguson, T.D. Barnie, D.M. Pyle, C. Oppenheimer, G. Yirgu, E. Lewi, T. Kidane, S. Carn, I.J. Hamling (2010) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j. epsl.2010.02.010
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image from paperPost rifting relaxation in the Afar Region, Ethiopia (PDF file). S.L. Nooner, L. Bennati, E. Calais, W.R. Buck, I.J. Hamling, T.J. Wright & E. Lewi (2009) Geophysical Research Letters, vol 36, L21308, doi:10.1029/2009GL040502.
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image from paperImaging detailed crustal structure and magmatic intrusion across the Ethiopian Rift using a dense linear broadband array (PDF file). D.G. Cornwell, P.K.H. Maguire, R.W. England & G.W. Stuart (2010) Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 11, Q0AB03, doi:10.1029/2009 GC002637.
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Image from paperGeodetic observations of the ongoing Dabbahu rifting episode: new dyke intrusions in 2006 and 2007 (PDF file). I. Hamling, A. Ayele, L. Bennati, E. Calais, C.J. Ebinger, D. Keir, E. Lewi, T.J. Wright & G.Yirgu (2009) Geophysical Journal International, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04163.x
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Image from paperSeptember 2005 mega-dike emplacement in the Manda-Harraro nascent oceanic rift (Afar depression) (PDF file). A. Ayele, D. Keir, C. Ebinger, T.J. Wright, G.W. Stuart, W.R. Buck, E. Jacques, G. Ogubazghi & J. Sholan, (2009). Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 36, L20306, doi:10.1029/2009GL039605, 2009
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Image from paperPaleomagnetism of the Fentale-magmatic segment, main Ethiopian Rift: New evidence for counterclockwise block rotation linked to transtensional deformation (PDF file). T. Kidane, Y-I. Otofuji, Y. Komatsu, H. Shibasaki, J. Rowland, (2009). Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 176 109–123.
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Image from paperLower crustal earthquakes near the Ethiopian rift induced by magmatic processes (PDF file). D. Keir, I.D. Bastow, K.A. Whaler, E. Daly, D.G. Cornwall & S. Hautot, (2009). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10, Q0AB02, doi:10.1029/2009GC002382
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Image from paperEvidence for focused magmatic accretion at segment centers from lateral dike injections captured beneath the Red Sea rift in Afar (PDF file) D. Keir, I.J. Hamling, A. Ayele, E. Calais, C.J. Ebinger, T.J. Wright, E. Jacques, K. Mohamed, J.O.S. Hammond, M. Belachew, E. Baker, J.V. Rowland, E. Lewi, L. Bennati. Geology 2009;37;59-62. doi:10.1130/G25147A.1
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Image from paperSurface displacements in the September 2005 Afar rifting event from satellite image matching: Asymmetric uplift and faulting (PDF file). I. Barisin, S. Leprince, B. Parsons & T.J. Wright. (2009). Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 7, CiteID L07301

Image from paperUpper mantle seismic structure beneath the Ethiopian hot spot: Rifting at the edge of the African low-velocity anomaly (PDF file). I.D. Bastow, A.A. Nyblade, G.W. Stuart, T.O. Rooney & M.H. Benoit, (2008). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, 12, Q12022, doi:10.1029/2008GC002107

Image from paperCapturing magma intrusion and faulting processes during continental rupture: seismicity of the Dabbahu (Afar) rift (pdf file). C.J. Ebinger, D. Keir, A. Ayele, E. Calais, T.J. Wright, M. Belachew, J.O.S. Hammond, E. Campbell and W. R. Buck (2008) Geophysical Journal International doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03877.x

Image from paperWatching from Afar (pdf file). D. Keir (2008). Planet Earth (Autumn 2008) NERC. 16-17

Image from paperFault growth at a nascent slow-spreading ridge: 2005 Dabbahu rifting episode, Afar (pdf file). J.V. Rowland, E. Baker, D. Keir, T. Kidane, J. Biggs, N. Hayward, T.J. Wright & C. Ebinger, (2007). Geophysical Journal International, 171, pp.1226-1246. doi:doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03584.x

Image from paperMagma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode (pdf file). T.J. Wright, C. Ebinger, J. Biggs, A. Ayele, G. Yirgu, D. Keir & A. Stork, (2006) , Nature, 442, 291-294, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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