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Atalay Ayele Ayele Wondem
Addis Ababa University
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Near Surface Characterization Using Active and Passive Surface Wave Analysis at Selected Sites in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
NEAR-SURFACE GEOPHYSICS FOR VADOSE ZONE AND SOIL PROCESSES I POSTER
near surface geophysics | 13 december 2023
Biruk Wolde, Atalay Ayele A. Wondem, Trufat Hailma...
The subsurface condition of Addis Ababa city is heterogeneous and distinctly varies from place to place, ranging from very soft soil formations to com...
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Kinematics of linkage between the Eastern and Ethiopian rifts through the twice-rifted Turkana Depression, Africa
FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTS TO RIFTED MARGINS I ORAL
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Cynthia J. Ebinger, Garrett Sullivan, Martin Musil...
The process of diachronous rift initiation and linkage within continental lithosphere to form a contiguous plate boundary remains debated. Within crat...
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Receiver function and surface-wave analysis of the Moho and lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary below the Turkana Depression, East Africa
FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTS TO RIFTED MARGINS III POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Christopher Steven Ogden, Rita Kounoudis, Ian D. B...
The Turkana Depression is a broad (~500km-wide), topographically-subdued (~0.5km), region between the elevated Ethiopian (~1.5km) and East African Pla...
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Surface-Wave Analysis of Crust and Uppermost Mantle Structure in the Multiply Rifted Turkana Depression, East Africa: implications for the development of Rifting and Magmatism
FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTS TO RIFTED MARGINS III POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Ian D. Bastow, Rita Kounoudis, Cynthia J. Ebinger,...
The Turkana Depression separates the uplifted Ethiopian and East African plateaus. In Mesozoic times, it was host to a failed episode of N-S-oriented ...
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Extensional Earthquakes in the Absence of Magma in Northern Afar: Insights From InSAR
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
11 may 2023
Alessandro La Rosa, Martina Raggiunti, Carolina Pa...

In magma‐rich rifts, normal faulting is commonly thought to be induced by dike intrusions. However, whether fault slip occurs purely tectonic...

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Seismic Imaging of Heterogeneous Lithosphere Beneath the Unusually Broad Turkana Depression, Africa
FROM DEEP LITHOSPHERE TO EARTH SURFACE PROCESS; THE NATURAL LABORATORY OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT I ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2022
Rita Kounoudis, Ian D. Bastow, Cynthia J. Ebinger,...
Multiple geoscientific studies along the East African Rift have revealed that extension via magma intrusion now prevails over plate stretching as the ...
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The 2015 Earthquake Swarm of Fentale Volcano: Multi-hazard Threat for Ethiopia’s Access to the Coast
FROM DEEP LITHOSPHERE TO EARTH SURFACE PROCESS; THE NATURAL LABORATORY OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT I ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2022
Kathryn A. Whaler, Atalay Ayele A. Wondem, Richard...
The Fentale-Dofen magmatic segment was shown to be more active than other volcanic centers in the northern Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) by a temporary se...
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Seismic structure of the crust-uppermost mantle beneath the Ethiopia volcanic province: evidence from auto-correlation and 3D-ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography
FROM DEEP LITHOSPHERE TO EARTH SURFACE PROCESS; THE NATURAL LABORATORY OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT II POSTER
tectonophysics | 15 december 2022
Sisay Alemayehu, Abdelkrim Aoudia, Atalay Ayele A....
The Ethiopian-Yemen plateaus have been affected by plume-related magmatism for at least 40 Ma, yet the nature and distribution of intrusive magmas an...
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