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200	Limits on lithospheric stress imposed by laboratory experiments - Brace, Kohlstedt - 1980
117	Poisson’s ratio and crustal seismology. - Christensen - 1996 (Show Context) Citation Context ...ry (i.e., ringing) character of the signal following the Pdirect arrival. Extremely high values of the Poisson’s ratio (...
73	The isolation of receiver effects from teleseismic P waveforms, - Ammon - 1991
32	Plate kinematics: The Americas, east Africa, and the rest of the world, - Chase - 1978 (Show Context) Citation Context ...7;Manighetti et al., 1998]. This rift system forms the current tectonic boundary between the Nubian Plate to the west, the Somalian Plate to the southeast, and the Arabian Plate toward the northeast [=-=Chase, 1978-=-; Stein and Gordon, 1984]. Onset of voluminous Oligocene flood basalts and rhyolitic ignimbrite sequences at about 30 Ma [Baker et al., 1996; Hofmann et al., 1997; Ayalew et al., 2002] was approximate...
26	Constraints on melting and magma production in the crust, Earth Planet - Clemens, Vielzeuf - 1987
17	A brief Oligocene period of flood volcanism in Yemen: implications for the duration and rate of continental flood volcanism at the Afro-Arabian triple junction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 138 - Baker, Snee, et al. - 1996 (Show Context) Citation Context ...late to the southeast, and the Arabian Plate toward the northeast [Chase, 1978; Stein and Gordon, 1984]. Onset of voluminous Oligocene flood basalts and rhyolitic ignimbrite sequences at about 30 Ma [=-=Baker et al., 1996-=-; Hofmann et al., 1997; Ayalew et al., 2002] was approximately coeval with extension in the Gulf of Aden [Ebinger and Sleep, 1998; Bosworth et al., 2005] and was synchronous with or immediately preced...
11	Lawrence (2009), Partial melt in the upper‐middle crust of the northwest Himalaya revealed by Rayleigh wave dispersion - Caldwell, Klemperer, et al.
10	Constraints on melt in the lower crust and Moho at the East Pacific Rise, 9480N, using seafloor compliance measurements. - Crawford, Webb, et al. - 1999 (Show Context) Citation Context ...gor et al. [1998] utilized electromagnetic sounding to constrain a minimum of 20% melt in an axial magma chamber along the Reykjanes Ridge. Similarly, the seismic velocities beneath mid-ocean ridges [=-=Crawford et al., 1999-=-; Hussenoeder et al., 2002] are significantly lower than what we observed in Regions A and B. Beneath typical continental rift zones such as the Rio Grande and Baikal rifts, on the other hand, the ave...
8	The protracted development of the continent-ocean transition in Afar: - Bastow, Keir - 2011
8	2006), Strain accommodation in transitional rifts: Extension by magma intrusion and faulting in Ethiopian rift magmatic segments, Geol - Casey, Ebinger, et al.
7	Volcanism of Afar: Small-scale plate tectonics implications: - Barberi, Varet - 1977 (Show Context) Citation Context ...being generated. Numerous models regarding the generation of oceanic lithosphere with the onset of incipient seafloor spreading within the rift axial zones have been advocated [McKenzie et al., 1970; =-=Barberi and Varet, 1977-=-; Prodehl et al., 1997; Stuart et al., 2006; Bastow et al., 2011]. Others have argued that the Afar Depression is marked by unique transitional continental spreading leading to the formation of new ma...
7	Constraints on the deformation and rupturing of continental lithosphere of the Red Sea: the transition from rifting to drifting - Cochran, Karner - 2007
5	2011), Crustal structure and evolution beneath the Colorado Plateau and the southern Basin and Range Province: Results from receiver function and gravity studies, Geochem. Geophys - Bashir, Gao, et al.
5	Kinematics Of The Sinai Triple Junction And A TwoPhase Model Of Arabia-Africa Rifting, In Continental Extensional Tectonics. kinematics Of The Sinai Triple Junction And A Two-Phase Model Of Arabia-Africa Rifting - Courtillot, Armijo, et al. - 1987 (Show Context) Citation Context ... and the Main Ethiopian rift (MER). Locally, however, only the Red Sea and Main Ethiopian rifts interact directly (Figure 1a) since the Gulf of Aden rift arm propagates landward farther to the north [=-=Courtillot et al., 1987-=-;Manighetti et al., 1997;Manighetti et al., 1998]. This rift system forms the current tectonic boundary between the Nubian Plate to the west, the Somalian Plate to the southeast, and the Arabian Plate...
5	Crustal extension and magmatic processes: COCORP profiles from Death Valley and the Rio Grande rift, Geol - Voogd, Serpa, et al. - 1988
4	Strike-slip faults in a rift area: a transect in - ABBATE, PASSERINI, et al. - 1995 (Show Context) Citation Context ...altic extrusives with minor rhyolitic contributions spanning 4 to 1 Ma [Varet, 1978], initiated eruption within the Tendaho graben at approximately 2 Ma during a period of rift-synchronous volcanism [=-=Abbate et al., 1995-=-; Acton et al., 2000; Acocella et al., 2008]. The graben is bounded by flanks of extruded Stratoid basalts, while the interior basin is infilled with at least 1.6 km of lacustrine sediment as well as ...
4	The Ethiopia Afar Geoscientific Lithospheric Experiment (EAGLE): probing the transition from continental rifting to incipient seafloor spreading, Geol - Bastow, Keir, et al. - 2011
4	Detrick (2000), Seismic structure across the rift valley of the MidAtlantic Ridge at 23200 (MARK area): Implications for crustal accretion processes at slow spreading ridges - Canales, Collins, et al.
4	Oluma (2006), Northern Main Ethiopian Rift crustal structure from new high-precision gravity data, Geol - Cornwell, Mackenzie, et al.
3	2008), Structure of Tendaho graben and Manda Hararo rift: Implications for the evolution of the Southern Red Sea propagator in - Acocella, Abebe, et al.
3	The tectonic and geomagnetic significance of paleomagnetic observations from volcanic rocks from central - ACTON, TESSEMA, et al. - 2000
3	Abdelsalam (2005), Tectonics of the Afar Depression: A review and synthesis - Beyene, M
3	Secular and tidal strain across the Ethiopian rift, Geophys - Bilham, Bendick, et al. - 1999 (Show Context) Citation Context ...crust has been concentrated greatly (greater than 80% of the total strain field) on magmatic segments [Ebinger and Casey, 2001] associated with a Quaternary zone of faulting approximately 33 km wide [=-=Bilham et al., 1999-=-] collectively known as the Wonji Fault Belt [Pizzi et al., 2006], thus leading to modern-day strain abandonment along the MER border faults. Significant evidence to support these hypotheses has been ...
3	Modes of continental extension - Buck - 1991 (Show Context) Citation Context ...et al., 1997] in the western U.S. wherein the presence of a weak middle crust facilitates the decoupling of a ductile lower crust from a brittle upper crust. Models constructed for styles of rifting [=-=Buck, 1991-=-; Hopper and Buck, 1996] have emphasized the necessity of extremely weak rheologies in order to permit a lower crust to decouple from a strong upper crust, and Brace and Kohlstedt [1980] showed that a...
2	2002), Source, genesis, and timing of giant ignimbrite deposits associated with Ethiopian continental flood basalts, Geochim - Ayalew, Barbey, et al.
2	The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden basins: Phanerozoic evolution of - Bosworth, Huchon, et al. - 2005
2	2014), Thermal models of dyke intrusion during development of continent-ocean transition, Earth Planet - Daniels, Bastow, et al.
2	and CALIXTO Group (2005), The crustal structure beneath SE Romania from teleseismic receiver functions, Geophys - Diehl, Ritter
1	Coupling volcanism and tectonics along divergent plate boundaries: Collapsed rifts from central - Acocella - 2010 (Show Context) Citation Context ...westernmost extent of the NW-SE trending Dobi-Hanle rift system, which bears structural similarity to the Tendaho graben and is thought to have formed through similar mechanisms [Abbate et al., 1995; =-=Acocella, 2010-=-]. Farther beyond the Dobi-Hanle rift system to the northeast lies a zone of broad, diffusely extended continental crust overlain with the Stratoid series bounded to the southwest and northeast by the...
1	Engeln - Acton, Stein, et al. - 1991 (Show Context) Citation Context ...s multiple rigid, clockwise-rotating microplates produced as a result of strain distribution between the competing rift propagators through regional-scale bookshelf faulting [Tapponnier et al., 1990; =-=Acton et al., 1991-=-; Sigmundsson, 1992; Manighetti et al., 2001]. Further details about the tectonic framework and evolution of the study area can be found in Beyene and Abdelsalam [2005] and Bosworth et al. [2005]. A m...
1	Alemu (2012), Magnetic stripes of a transitional continental rift - Bridges, Mickus, et al.
1	Dawes (2013), A mantle magma reservoir beneath an incipient mid-ocean ridge in - Desissa, Johnson, et al.