Geophysical, petrological, and geochemical data provide important clues about the
composition of the deep continental crust. On the basis of seismic refraction data, we divide …

Abstract The Red Sea is part of an extensive rift system that includes from south to north the
oceanic Sheba Ridge, the Gulf of Aden, the Afar region, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the …

We here summarize the evolution of the greater Red Sea–Gulf of Aden rift system, which
includes the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden marine basins and …

Six distinctive tectonic episodes punctuate the stratigraphic record of the Gulf of Suez area.
These episodes include the Pan-African event (late Proterozoic), which resulted in the …

The earliest ideas about continental drift (Wegener 1929) were based on the observation
that the eastern coasts of North and South America matched the shape of the western coasts …

Abstract The Gulf of Suez is a Neogene rift which has evolved as one arm of the Sinai triple
junction together with the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Backstrip** of well data in the …

Simple shear and pure shear extension of the lithosphere produce very different patterns of
heat flow and topography. These differences are investigated using a numerical technique …

We establish the kinematics of the rotation of Arabia with respect to Africa and show that the
rotation rate of Africa increased by a factor of about four in late Serravallian time, about 12 …

The Afar depression is an ideal locale to study the role of extension and magmatism as
rifting progresses to seafloor spreading. Here we present receiver function results from new …

New results from a two-ship refraction and oblique reflection deep seismic cruise are
presented to discuss the nature of the crust in the Ionian, Sirte and Herodotus abyssal …