Contrasted continental rifting via plume-craton interaction: Applications to Central East African Rift

Contrasted continental rifting via plume-craton interaction: Applications to Central East African Rift

The East African Rift system (EARS) provides a unique system with the juxtaposition of two contrasting yet simultaneously formed rift branches, the eastern, magma-rich, and the western, magma-poor, on either sides of the old thick Tanzanian craton embedded in a younger lithosphere. Data on the pre-r...

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Main Authors: Alexander Koptev, Evgueni Burov, Eric Calais, Sylvie Leroy, Taras Gerya, Laurent Guillou-Frottier, Sierd Cloetingh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-03-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Subjects:
Plume-lithosphere interaction
Continental rifting
East African Rift System
3D numerical modeling
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987115001280

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