Continental rift evolution: from rift initiation to incipient break-up in the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa

G Corti - Earth-science reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The Main Ethiopian Rift is a key sector of the East African Rift System that connects the Afar
depression, at Red Sea–Gulf of Aden junction, with the Turkana depression and Kenya Rift …

History of the development of the East African Rift System: A series of interpreted maps through time

D Macgregor - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
This review paper presents a series of time reconstruction maps of the 'East African Rift
System'('EARS'), illustrating the progressive development of fault trends, subsidence …

Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics

P Molnar, JM Stock - Tectonics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructions of the relative positions of the India and Eurasia plates, using recently
revised histories of movement between India and Somalia and between North America and …

Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting

L Michon, V Famin, X Quidelleur - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Many continental rifts are subjected to volcanism in tandem with rifting, which has raised a
long-standing debate about whether magmatism is the cause or the consequence of plate …

Evolution and characteristics of continental rifting: Analog modeling-inspired view and comparison with examples from the East African Rift System

G Corti - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
The evolution and characteristics of narrow continental rifting are illustrated in this paper
through a review of recent lithospheric-scale analog models of continental extension …

Geology of Ethiopia: a review and geomorphological perspectives

E Abbate, P Bruni, M Sagri - Landscapes and landforms of Ethiopia, 2015 - Springer
The Ethiopian region records about one billion years of geological history. The first event
was the closure of the Mozambique ocean between West and East Gondwana with the …

Controls of inherited lithospheric heterogeneity on rift linkage: Numerical and analog models of interaction between the Kenyan and Ethiopian rifts across the Turkana …

S Brune, G Corti, G Ranalli - Tectonics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Inherited rheological structures in the lithosphere are expected to have large impact on the
architecture of continental rifts. The Turkana depression in the East African Rift connects the …

Determination of potential aquifer recharge zones using geospatial techniques for proxy data of Gilgel Gibe Catchment, Ethiopia

TD Mengistu, SW Chang, IH Kim, MG Kim, IM Chung - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
The lack of valuable baseline information about groundwater availability hinders the robust
decision-making process of water management in humid, arid, and semi-arid climate …

Control of rift obliquity on the evolution and segmentation of the main Ethiopian rift

G Corti - Nature Geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
The main Ethiopian rift is an active rift in the break-up stage, and it marks the incipient
boundary between the Nubia and Somalia plates. Rifting started with the activation of large …

Crustal structure of the northern Main Ethiopian Rift from the EAGLE controlled-source survey; a snapshot of incipient lithospheric break-up

PKH Maguire, GR Keller, SL Klemperer… - Geological Society …, 2006 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ethiopia Afar Geoscientific Lithospheric Experiment (EAGLE) was undertaken
to provide a snapshot of lithospheric break-up above a mantle upwelling at the transition …