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Time Varying Crustal Anisotropy at Whakaari/White Island Volcano by Mengesha, D. Y., Savage, M. K., Jolly, A. D., Ebinger, C. J.

“…Whakaari/White Island has been the most active New Zealand volcano in the 21st century, producing small phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions, which are hard…”
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Crustal Structure of Active Deformation Zones in Africa: Implications for Global Crustal Processes by Ebinger, C. J., Keir, D., Bastow, I. D., Whaler, K., Hammond, J. O. S., Ayele, A., Miller, M. S., Tiberi, C., Hautot, S.

“…The Cenozoic East African rift (EAR), Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL), and Atlas Mountains formed on the slow‐moving African continent, which last experienced…”
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Multigenetic Origin of the X‐Discontinuity Below Continents: Insights From African Receiver Functions by Pugh, Stephen, Boyce, Alistair, Bastow, Ian D., Ebinger, C. J., Cottaar, Sanne

“…Constraints on chemical heterogeneities in the upper mantle may be derived from studying the seismically observable impedance contrasts that they produce. Away…”
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Strain accommodation by magmatism and faulting as rifting proceeds to breakup: Seismicity of the northern Ethiopian rift by Keir, Derek, Ebinger, C. J., Stuart, G. W., Daly, E., Ayele, A.

“…The volcanically active Main Ethiopian rift (MER) marks the transition from continental rifting in the East African rift to incipient seafloor spreading in…”
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Insights Into Fault‐Magma Interactions in an Early‐Stage Continental Rift From Source Mechanisms and Correlated Volcano‐Tectonic Earthquakes by Oliva, S. J., Ebinger, C. J., Wauthier, C., Muirhead, J. D., Roecker, S. W., Rivalta, E., Heimann, S.

“…Strain in magmatic rifts is accommodated by both faulting and dike intrusion, but little is known of the frequency of dike intrusions in early‐stage rifts. We…”
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Mantle Wavespeed and Discontinuity Structure Below East Africa: Implications for Cenozoic Hotspot Tectonism and the Development of the Turkana Depression by Boyce, A., Kounoudis, R., Bastow, I. D., Cottaar, S., Ebinger, C. J., Ogden, C. S.

“…Ethiopia's Cenozoic flood basalt magmatism, uplift, and rifting have been attributed to one or more mantle plumes. The Nubian plate, however, has drifted…”
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Body‐Wave Tomographic Imaging of the Turkana Depression: Implications for Rift Development and Plume‐Lithosphere Interactions by R. Kounoudis, I. D. Bastow, C. J. Ebinger, C. S. Ogden, A. Ayele, R. Bendick, N. Mariita, G. Kianji, G. Wigham, M. Musila, B. Kibret

“…Abstract The Turkana Depression, a topographically subdued, broadly rifted zone between the elevated East African and Ethiopian plateaus, disrupts the N–S,…”
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Magma-assisted rifting in Ethiopia by Kendall, J.-M, Keir, D, Ebinger, C. J, Bastow, I. D, Stuart, G. W

“…The rifting of continents and evolution of ocean basins is a fundamental component of plate tectonics, yet the process of continental break-up remains…”
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Active Deformation Constraints on the Nubia‐Somalia Plate Boundary Through Heterogenous Lithosphere of the Turkana Depression by Musila, M., Ebinger, C. J., Bastow, I. D., Sullivan, G., Oliva, S. J., Knappe, E., Perry, M., Kounoudis, R., Ogden, C. S., Bendick, R., Mwangi, S., Mariita, N., Kianji, G., Kraus, E., Illsley‐Kemp, F.

“…Abstract The role of lithospheric heterogeneities, presence or absence of melt, local and regional stresses, and gravitational potential energy in strain…”
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Cenozoic magmatism throughout east Africa resulting from impact of a single plume by Ebinger, C. J, Sleep, N. H

“…The geology of northern and central Africa is characterized by broad plateaux, narrower swells and volcanism occurring from ∼45 Myr ago to the present. The…”
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Thermochemical Modification of the Upper Mantle Beneath the Northern Malawi Rift Constrained From Shear Velocity Imaging by N. J. Accardo, J. B. Gaherty, D. J. Shillington, E. Hopper, A. A. Nyblade, C. J. Ebinger, C. A. Scholz, P. R. N. Chindandali, R. Wambura‐Ferdinand, G. Mbogoni, J. B. Russell, B. K. Holtzman, C. Havlin, C. Class

“…Abstract To investigate the controls on continental rifting in the western branch of the East Africa Rift System, we conduct shear velocity imaging of the…”
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Variations in the along-axis segmentation of the Afar Rift system by Hayward, N. J., Ebinger, C. J.

“…Both oceanic and continental rifts show regular along‐axis segmentation, but the relationship, if any, between the two is poorly understood. The tectonically…”
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Variations in late syn-rift melt alignment inferred from shear-wave splitting in crustal earthquakes beneath the Ethiopian rift by Keir, Derek, Kendall, J-M., Ebinger, C. J., Stuart, G. W.

“…The northern Main Ethiopian rift (MER) marks the transition from continental rifting to incipient seafloor spreading. We constrain anisotropy of the…”
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Wavelet transform mapping of effective elastic thickness and plate loading: Validation using synthetic data and application to the study of southern African tectonics by Stark, C. P., Stewart, J., Ebinger, C. J.

“…We present a new wavelet transform method to map spatial variations in effective elastic thickness Te and plate loading ratio f. The method assumes a model of…”
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Kinematics of rift linkage between the Eastern and Ethiopian rifts in the Turkana Depression, Africa by Sullivan, Garrett, Ebinger, C. J., Musila, M., Perry, Mason, Kraus, E. R., Bastow, Ian, Bendick, Becks

“…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…”
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Late Eocene-Recent volcanism and faulting in the southern main Ethiopian Rift by Ebinger, C. J, Yemane, T, WoldeGabriel, Giday, Aronson, J. L, Walter, R. C

“…New structural observations, together with K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology data from a transect of the Chamo basin-Amaro horst-Galana basin, show that basins…”
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Fault growth at a nascent slow‐spreading ridge: 2005 Dabbahu rifting episode, Afar by Rowland, J. V., Baker, E., Ebinger, C. J., Keir, D., Kidane, T., Biggs, J., Hayward, N., Wright, T. J.

“…SUMMARY We present a preliminary account of the near‐field surface strain associated with a major magmatic rifting episode at a nascent slow spreading ridge in…”
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Wavelet and multitaper coherence methods for assessing the elastic thickness of the Irish Atlantic margin by Daly, E., Brown, C., Stark, C. P., Ebinger, C. J.

“…There have been some inconsistencies in estimates of the effective elastic thickness of the continental lithosphere Te based upon admittance or coherence…”
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Capturing magma intrusion and faulting processes during continental rupture: Seismicity of the Dabbahu (Afar) rift by Ebinger, C. J., Keir, D., Ayele, A., Calais, E., Wright, T. J., Belachew, M., Hammond, J. O. S., Campbell, E., Buck, W. R.

“…Continental rupture models emphasize the role of faults in extensional strain accommodation; extension by dyke intrusion is commonly overlooked. A major…”
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Late Oligocene volcanism and extension in the southern Red Sea Hills, Sudan by Kenea, N. H, Ebinger, C. J, Rex, D. C

“…The temporal and spatial relationships between Cenozoic extension in the Red Sea and flood basalt volcanism in the Ethiopian plateau region were poorly…”
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