Basaltic pulses and lithospheric thinning—Plio‐pleistocene magmatism and rifting in the Turkana Depression (East African Rift System)

SM Cancel Vazquez, TO Rooney… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The East African Rift System (EARS) provides an opportunity to constrain the
relationship between magmatism and plate thinning. During continental rifting, magmatism …

[HTML][HTML] The development of rifting and magmatism in the multiply rifted Turkana Depression, East Africa: Evidence from surface-wave analysis of crustal and …

R Kounoudis, ID Bastow, CJ Ebinger… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Turkana Depression separates the uplifted Ethiopian and East African
Plateaus. It was the site, in Mesozoic times, of a failed episode of NE–SW-oriented rifting …

Seamless map of depth to the Moho interface in the Afro‐Arabian region using gravity data derived from EGM2008

E Lewi - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Afro‐Arabian region is one of the few places on land, where rifting processes at
divergent plate boundaries can be thoroughly investigated. One of the crucial factors in …

[HTML][HTML] Geomorphic expressions of active rifting reflect the role of structural inheritance: a new model for the evolution of the Shanxi Rift, northern China

M Froemchen, KJW McCaffrey, MB Allen… - Solid Earth, 2024 - se.copernicus.org
Many rifts are influenced by pre-existing structures and heterogeneities during their
evolution, a process known as structural inheritance. During rift evolution, these …

Active deformation in the central section of the East African Rift from tectonic, volcanic, and hydrologic processes: Observations from satellite geodesy

KD Murray, CJ Ebinger - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The East African Rift System (EARS) is an active continental rift zone that hosts a
diverse range of processes that result in recent and ongoing crustal deformation. To analyze …

Kinematics of rift linkage between the Eastern and Ethiopian rifts in the Turkana Depression, Africa

G Sullivan, CJ Ebinger, M Musila, M Perry, ER Kraus… - Basin …, 2024 - earthdoc.org
Rift initiation within cold, thick, strong lithosphere and the evolving linkage to form a
contiguous plate boundary remains debated in part owing to the lack of time–space …

Temporal variation in counterclockwise vertical-axis block rotations across a rift overlap zone, southwestern Ethiopia, East Africa

A Erbello, G Dupont-Nivet, T Kidane, N Nowaczyk… - Tectonophysics, 2025 - Elsevier
The southward propagation of the southern Main Ethiopian Rift (sMER) and the northward
propagation of the Kenya Rift have generated the Broadly Rifted Zone (BRZ), a∼ 40-km …