Dual continental rift systems generated by plume–lithosphere interaction

A common mantle plume source beneath the entire East African Rift System revealed by coupled helium-neon systematics

(2014) Saemundur A. Halldórsson et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Plume hypothesis challenged

(2014) Gillian R. Foulger et al.   NATURE

Present-day kinematics of the East African Rift

(2014) E. Saria et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Melting during late-stage rifting in Afar is hot and deep

(2013) D. J. Ferguson et al.   NATURE

Upper mantle shear wave velocity structure beneath the East African plateau: evidence for a deep, plateauwide low velocity anomaly

(2012) Aubreya Adams et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Initiation of the western branch of the East African Rift coeval with the eastern branch

(2012) E. M. Roberts et al.   Nature Geoscience

Seismic anisotropy of the uppermost mantle beneath the Rio Grande rift: Evidence from Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths, New Mexico

(2011) Takako Satsukawa et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Elevated mantle temperature beneath East Africa

(2011) T. O. Rooney et al.   GEOLOGY

Changes in African topography driven by mantle convection

(2011) Robert Moucha et al.   Nature Geoscience

Earthquakes along the East African Rift System: A multiscale, system-wide perspective

(2010) Zhaohui Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Strain accommodation by slow slip and dyking in a youthful continental rift, East Africa

(2008) Eric Calais et al.   NATURE