Publications from The Afar Stratoid project
Journal Articles
Observing Oblique Slip During Rift Linkage in Northern Afar
Alessandro La Rosa, Carolina Pagli, Derek Keir, Federico Sani, Giacomo Corti, Hua Wang, and Daniel Possee, Geophysical Research Letters 46, 10,782-10,790, 2019.
A review of tectonic models for the rifted margin of Afar: Implications for continental break-up and passive margin formation
Frank Zwaan, Giacomo Corti, Derek Keir, and Federico Sani, Journal of African Earth Sciences 164, 103649, doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103649, 2020.
Structural analysis of the Western Afar Margin, East Africa: evidence for multiphase rotational rifting
Frank Zwaan, Giacomo Corti, Federico Sani, Derek Keir, Ameha Muluneh, Finn Illsley-Kemp, and Mauro Papini, Tectonics, doi: 10.1029/2019TC006043, 2020.
3D extension at plate boundaries accommodated by interacting fault systems
Evolution of the Alu-Dalafilla and Borale volcanoes, Afar, Ethiopia
Analogue modelling of marginal flexure in Afar, East Africa: Implications for passive margin formation
Frank Zwaan, Giacomo Corti, Derek Keir, Federico Sani, Tectonophysics, 796, 228595. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228595, 2020.
Lower Crustal Earthquakes in the March 2018 Sequence Along the Western Margin of Afar
Alessandro La Rosa, Derek Keir, Cecile Doubre, Federico Sani, Giacomo Corti, Sylvie Leroy, Atalay Ayele, Carolina Pagli, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, 4, doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009614, 2021.
Plate‐boundary kinematics of the Afrera linkage zone (Afar) from InSAR and seismicity
Alessandro La Rosa, Carolina Pagli, Hua Wang, Cecile Doubre, Sylvie Leroy, Federico Sani, Giacomo Corti, Atalay Ayele, Derek Keir, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2020JB021387, 2021.
Evidence of active magmatic rifting at the Ma’Alalta volcanic feld (Afar, Ethiopia)
Gianmaria Tortelli, Anna Gioncada, Carolina Pagli, Mauro Rosi, Laura De Dosso, Derek Keir, Bulletin of Volcanology, 83, 38, doi:10.1007/s00445-021-01461-4, 2021.
The 2008–2010 subsidence of Dallol volcano on the spreading erta ale ridge: InSAR observations and source models
Maurizio Battaglia, Carolina Pagli, Stefano Meuti, Remote Sensing, 13, 1991, doi:10.3390/rs13101991, 2021.
Caldera collapse and tectonics along the Main Ethiopian rift: reviewing possible relationships
Daniele Maestrelli, Giacomo Corti, Marco Bonini, Domenico Montanari, Federico Sani, Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 353, S2, 1-19. doi:10.5802/crgeos.63, 2021.
Revealing 60 years of earthquake swarms in the Southern Red Sea, Afar and the Gulf of Aden
Joel Ruch, Derek Keir, Luigi Passarelli, Domenico Di Giacomo, Gebrebrhan Ogubazghi, Sigurjon Jonsson, Froniters in Earth Science, 9, doi:10.3389/feart.2021.664673 2021.
Variations in melt emplacement beneath the northern East African Rift from radial anisotropy
Emma Chambers, Nicholas Harmon, Catherine Rychert, Derek Keir, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 573, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117150, 2021.
Imaging the seismic velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle in the northern East African Rift using Rayleigh wave tomography
Emma Chambers, Nicholas Harmon, Catherine Rychert, Ryan Gallacher, Derek Keir, Geophysical Journal International, doi:10.1093/gji/ggac156, 2022.
Constraints on the magma source and rift evolution from geochemistry of the Stratoid Flood Basalts (Afar, Ethiopia)
Gianmaria Tortelli, Anna Gioncada, Carolina Pagli, Eleonora Braschi, Ermius Gebru, Derek Keir, Geochmistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(8) doi: 10.1029/2022GC010434, 2022.
Analog and Numerical Modeling of Rift-Rift-Rift Triple Junctions
Daniele Maestrelli, Sascha Brune, Giacomo Corti, Derek Keir, Ameha Muluneh, Federico Sani, Tectonics, doi: 10.1029/2022TC007491
Across and along-strike crustal structure variations of the western Afar margin and adjacent plateau: Insights from receiver functions analysis
Abdulhakim Ahmed, Cecile Doubre, Sylvie Leroy, Derek Keir, Carolina Pagli, James O.S. Hammond, Atalay Ayele, 2022 , Journal of African Earth Sciences , 192, doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104570
Conferences Presentations
AGU2019 - 9-13 Dec 2019
Observing oblique slip during rift linkage in Northern Afar
Alessandro La Rosa et al. T42B-07.
EGU2020 - 3-8 May 2020
Evidence of active magmatic rifting in Ma'alalta marginal volcano (Afar, Ethiopia)
Gianmaria Tortelli et al. TS6.5. EGU2020-6976.
Anomalously deep earthquakes in the March 2018 swarm along the Western Margin of Afar
Alessandro La Rosa et al. GD6.3. EGU2020-3084.
Rift linkage processes in areas of incipient oceanic spreading: examples from Afar
Carolina Pagli et al. TS6.3. EGU2020-6828.
Multiphase rotational extension and marginal flexure along a developing passive margin: the Western Afar Margin, East Africa
Frank Zwaan et al. TS6.1. EGU2020-2620.
Imaging segmentation in early stage rifting (prior to breakup) using a joint inversion of Rayleigh waves from teleseisms and ambient noise tomography in the northern East African Rift
Emma Chambers et al. TS6.1. EGU2020-9219.
AGU2020 - 1-18 Dec 2020
Plate-boundary kinematics of the Afrera linkage zone (Afar) from InSAR and seismicity
Alessandro La Rosa et al. T028-02.
Geochemical characterization of the Stratoid Series and comparison to the Gulf Basalt formation (Afar, Ethiopia)
Gianmaria Tortelli et al. V020-0021.
Using radial anisotropy to image melt migration and storage in the crust and uppermost mantle of the northern EAR
Emma Chambers et al. T041-0005.
VMSG2021 - 6-8 Jan 2021
Geochemical characterization of the Stratoid Series and comparison to the Gulf Basalt formation (Afar, Ethiopia)
Gianmaria Tortelli
EGU2021 - 19-30 Apr 2021
Evolution of the Alu-Dalafilla and Borale Volcanoes, Afar, Ethiopia
Emma Watts et al. EGU21-7898.
SGI-90° 2021 - 13-17 Sep 2021
Analogue models of Rift-Rift-Rift triple junctions
Daniele Maestrelli
BeGEO2021 - 7-10 Oct 2021
Variations in the recent volcanism of central and southern Afar: new insights from geochemistry and petrography
Gianmaria Tortelli
Kinematics of the Afrera Linkage Zone (Afar) from InSAR, Seismicity and Structural data
Alessandro La Rosa
AGU2021 - 13-17 Dec 2021
Geochemical Evidence of Varying Melt Production at the Erta Ale Volcanic Segment
Emma Watts
Strain accommodations during rift linkage in the central Afar, East Africa
Ameha Muluneh
EGU2022 - 23-27 May 2022