The Afar Depression, a plate tectonic triple junction, is found in the Afar Regional State. This geologic feature is one of ... Danakil depression Archived 2020-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Map of Afar Region at DPPA of Ethiopia (PDF file) Afar Triangle ... The Afar Triangle, the northern part of which is the Danakil Depression, is part of the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, and is ... Afar Depression, Erta Ale active volcano, Awash National Park, Yangudi Rassa National Park, Hadar and Aramis areas, are the ...

Gaet'ale Pond is a small hypersaline lake located over a tectonic hot spring in the Danakil Depression (Afar, Ethiopia). With a ... The Danakil Depression is the northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression in Ethiopia, a geological depression that ... Afar Triangle Danakil Desert Beyene, Alebachew & Abdelsalam, Mohamed G. (2005). "Tectonics of the Afar Depression: A review and ... The Danakil Depression lies at the triple junction of three tectonic plates and has a complex geological history. It has ...

... is a small hypersaline lake located near the Dallol crater in the Danakil Depression (Afar Region, Ethiopia). It ... is located over a hot spring of tectonic origin and has no apparent inlet or outlet streams. The water of Gaet'ale Pond has a ... Perez, Eduardo; Chebude, Yonas (April 2017). "Chemical Analysis of Gaet'ale, a Hypersaline Pond in Danakil Depression (Ethiopia ... Danakil Depression, Ethiopia". Journal of Applied Volcanology. 5: 1-9. doi:10.1186/s13617-015-0042-x. Retrieved 15 May 2020. ...

RRR geometry will continue stably through time until there is a change in the tectonic movement. The Afar Depression is a ... The uplift ended in collapse around 25 Mya into the Afar depression covering more than 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) and spreading ... Beyene, Alebachew; Abdelsalam, Mohamed G. (1 January 2005). "Tectonics of the Afar Depression: A review and synthesis". Journal ... The Afar Triple Junction (also called the Afro-Arabian Rift System) is located along a divergent plate boundary dividing the ...

The Afar Triangle or Danakil Depression of Eritrea is the probable location of a triple junction where three tectonic plates ... The latter include Afar, Beja, Blin, and Saho. In addition, Nilo-Saharan languages (Kunama and Nara) are spoken as a native ... In 1734, the Afar leader Kedafu, established the Mudaito Dynasty in Ethiopia, which later also came to include the southern ... It is believed that the section of the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was a major site in terms of human evolution and may ...

... s are indeed common in volcanic regions (for instance Japan, Central Italy, the Afar depression or Iceland), ... A 200-m focal depth is believed to be a worldwide record value for tectonic events. In the French Alps, the Maurienne Valley is ... or also-though less frequently-far from tectonic plate boundaries (Nevada, Oklahoma or Scotland). In all cases, high-pressure ...

The rift continues inland to the Danakil Depression, a sandy plain lying 120 m (390 ft) below sea level. The gulf also marks ... formed as part of the complex rifting system that occurred in these parts where three tectonic plates meet. ... the territorial division between the Saho people and the Afar people. The Gulf of Zula and Buri Peninsula Photograph taken by ...

... forming the Afar Triple Junction in the Afar Depression of the Horn of Africa. The Red Sea Rift was formed by the divergence ... The Red Sea Rift is a mid-ocean ridge between two tectonic plates, the African Plate and the Arabian Plate. It extends from the ... Afar Triple Junction Gulf of Suez Rift McGuire, A. V.; Bohannon, R. G. (1989). "Timing of mantle upwelling: Evidence for a ... A two-stage spreading model explains the tectonic evolution in this region. The first major rift motion was seen in the lower/ ...

Divergent tectonic plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate Afar Triangle - Geological depression ... The junction of three tectonic plate boundaries in the northwest Indian Ocean Afar Triple Junction - Place where three tectonic ... Minor tectonic plate Burma Plate - Minor tectonic plate in Southeast Asia Cocos Plate - Young oceanic tectonic plate beneath ... Small tectonic plate in the Molucca Sea Indo-Australian Plate - A major tectonic plate formed by the fusion of the Indian and ...

The Afar Depression is the product of a tectonic triple-rifts junction (the Afar Triple Junction), where the spreading ridges ... The Afar Triangle (also called the Afar Depression) is a geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction, which is ... of the Afar Depression is covered by salt deposits, and mining salt is a major source of income for many Afar groups. The Afar ... The northern part of the Afar Depression is also known as the Danakil Depression. The lowlands are affected by heat, drought, ...

The area is known in the Afar language as Arrata. The alps lie along the southern Red Sea to the east of the Danakil Depression ... R. W. Hutchinson; G. G. Engels (29 October 1970). "Tectonic Significance of Regional Geology and Evaporite Lithofacies in ... About 20 million years ago the Afar rift zone opened up. This resulted in the alps breaking away from the Ethiopian plateau to ... "Geology of the Danakil and Ali-Sabieh Blocks". Afar Rift Consortium. Retrieved 17 January 2017. Wood, Charles A. (1979). "Marda ...

... around 11 million years ago close to the Afar depression and probably around 6-8 million years ago in the central sector. The ... discontinuous normal faults that give rise to major tectonic escarpments separating the rift floor from the surrounding ... is a branch of the East African Rift that runs through Ethiopia in a southwest direction from the Afar Triple Junction. In the ... "The evolution of the Main Ethiopian Rift in the frame of Afar and Kenya rifts propagation". Tectonics. 24. TC1007. doi:10.1029/ ...

... which stretches south from the triple junction in the Afar Depression, and an undersea continuation of the rift extending ... fissure in the Earth's crust extending from Turkey to Mozambique and marking the separation of the African and Arabian tectonic ... The referendum favoured continued association with France, partly due to a combined yes vote by the sizable Afar ethnic group ... Other Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Afar, Saho, Hadiyya, Sidamo and Agaw ...

... which stretches south from the triple junction in the Afar depression. The southern boundary with the Nubian-African Plate is a ... The Somali Plate is a minor tectonic plate which straddles the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is currently in the ... Victoria Microplate Alden, Andrew (2017-03-17) Here Are the Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates. thoughtco.com Saria, E; ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to Somali tectonic plate. Emerick, C. M., 1985, Age progressive volcanism in the Comores ...

The modern pattern of volcanism concentrated to the Afar Depression and the Main Ethiopian Rift begun in Late Miocene time. The ... A third major plantion surface and uniformity formed in the following a tectonic event in the Early Cretaceous that tilted ...

The Afar people mine salt, loading each of their camels with up to thirty salt bricks weighing four kilograms each. It will ... Further tectonic shifts caused lava to pour out of cracks and cover the sedimentary deposits. The Danakil Desert has a number ... There is a project to flood the depression by carrying out a channel from the ocean.[from whom?] In the past, salt was used as ... Situated in the Afar Triangle, it stretches across 136,956 square kilometres (52,879 sq mi)[citation needed] of arid terrain. ...

"Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates". About.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2015. " ... One hypothesis proposes the existence of a mantle plume beneath the Afar region, whereas an opposing hypothesis asserts that ... and the resulting depression filled with more modern sediment. The African Plate is rifting in the eastern interior of the ... The African Plate, also known as the Nubian Plate, is a major tectonic plate that includes much of the continent of Africa ( ...

Tectonic lineaments control both the position of vents and that of dry valleys in the field. There are both northeast-southwest ... Volcanism elsewhere in northeast Africa has also been attributed to the Red Sea Rift and the Afar hotspot. Jebel Marra and ... and in the northeast side of the Malha crater a lava flow of the Jebel Sowidor lava field has invaded the crater depression. ... The location of the volcanism triggered by this plume would be controlled more by the tectonic stress field than by the slow ...

The majority of earthquakes occur near the Afar Depression, with the largest typically occurring along or near major border ... In 1972 it was proposed that the EAR was not caused by tectonic activity, but rather by differences in crustal density. Since ... North of the Afar Triple Junction, the rift follows two paths: west to the Red Sea Rift and east to the Aden Ridge in the Gulf ... Southward from the Afar Triple Junction, the EAR consists of two main branches. The Eastern Rift Valley (also known as Gregory ...

In the Pliocene, no seams formed, instead the area went into increased tectonic unrest. The basin broke along two main fault ... Bogs, whose vegetation could not be decomposed in the water, formed above the clay layers deposited in depressions. The ... visible from afar. The western coalfield between Düren, Weisweiler, Eschweiler, Alsdorf, Aldenhoven and Jülich with the former ... the high dumps visible from afar, such as the Vollrather Höhe, Glessener Höhe and Sophienhöhe, have been opened up for leisure ...

The volcano is uneroded and forms a cone with a base area of 25 by 55 kilometres (16 mi × 34 mi). Viewed from afar, Mount ... The caldera has an incomplete rim and is filled with snow, leaving a 500-metre-wide (1,600 ft) depression. The rim of the ... The volcanism is related both to the West Antarctic Rift and to local tectonic structures such as faults and grabens. Mount ... Recent offset on faults and Holocene coastal uplift in the area indicates that tectonic activity is ongoing. Tomographic ...

They were brought to the surface by tectonic uplift, which still continues today. The summit is a sharp, jagged edge of mica ... The minor ridges on the north side of the border are parallel to this latter range, with their corresponding depressions ... throws out a number of ridges that radiate afar and gradually subside into the plain of northern Italy, covering a relatively ... The direction of the ranges and the depressions offers a marked contrast to that prevailing throughout the adjoining regions of ...

The site of Wakrita is a small Neolithic establishment located on a wadi in the tectonic depression of Gobaad in Djibouti in ... The Afar are familiar with the ginnili, a kind of warrior-poet and diviner, and have a rich oral tradition of folk stories. ... and the second-lowest depression on dry land anywhere on earth (surpassed only by the depression along the border of Jordan and ... The Somalis and Afar make up the two largest ethnic groups, with the former comprising the majority of the population. Both ...

The site of Wakrita is a small Neolithic establishment located on a wadi in the tectonic depression of Gobaad in Djibouti in ... Currently, political power is shared by a Somali president and an Afar prime minister, with an Afar career diplomat as Foreign ... A civil war broke out in 1991, between the government and a predominantly Afar rebel group, the Front for the Restoration of ... Between 1883 and 1887, France signed various treaties with the then ruling Somali and Afar Sultans, which allowed it to expand ...

... thick and in the Afar depression up to 100 metres (330 ft) thick. The first well-known European geologist to explore the region ... The Gregory rift is oriented NS, and in the past the minimum horizontal tectonic stress direction was EW, the direction of ... The rift is widest at the northern end in the Afar region, narrowing to a few kilometers in northern Tanzania, then splaying ... Describing the valley around this lake he said: "Imagine if you can a trough or depression 3300 feet above sea level, and ...

Makris, J.; Ginzburg, A. (1987-09-15). "Sedimentary basins within the Dead Sea and other rift zones The Afar Depression: ... The rate at which new oceanic lithosphere is added to each tectonic plate on either side of a mid-ocean ridge is the spreading ... but in 2005 the Ethiopian Afar Geophysical Lithospheric Experiment reported that in the Afar region, September 2005, a 60 km ... Divergent boundary - Linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other Vine-Matthews- ...

Afar Depression, in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, which contains the Awash River Some Rift Valley lakes, such as Lake ... This reflects the balance between tectonic subsidence and rates of evaporation and sedimentation. Where the basin floor is ... Qattara Depression, in Egypt. Chott Melrhir, in Algeria. Chott el Djerid, in Tunisia. The Okavango River, in the Kalahari ... Carroll, Alan R.; Bohacs, Kevin M. (1 February 1999). "Stratigraphic classification of ancient lakes: Balancing tectonic and ...

... depressions in the ground) and almost 500 caves, formed by the combined action of the karst and erosion by ice that covered the ... which emerged from the sea during the tectonic movements of the Alpine orogeny in the Cenozoic era. These deposits have long ... and could only be sold afar. The reduction of glaciers was in progress, reducing the cultivated land, and population growth ...

Later the deposit was covered by lake deposits and debris from the piedmont, and evaporites accumulated in depressions within ... Overall, northwest trending lineaments exercised a strong influence on the tectonic development of Ollagüe, and may be the path ... the youngest of which features a vigorous fumarole that is visible from afar. Ollagüe is mostly of Pleistocene age. It started ... Hastenrath, Stefan L. (1971). "On the Pleistocene Snow-Line Depression in the Arid Regions of the South American Andes". ...

Finally, tectonic stress patterns delineate a 40-80 kilometres (25-50 mi) wide ring surrounding the volcano that may be prone ... The volcano is visible from afar. Today Uturuncu is a tourism target. It was first ascended in 1955 by Friedrich Adolf Ernest ... Hastenrath, Stefan (1 January 1971). "On Snow Line Depression and Atmospheric Circulation in the Tropical Americas during the ... occurs below the summit of Uturuncu around sea level and some earthquakes appear to relate to the northwest-southeast tectonic ...