Capturing magma intrusion and faulting processes during continental rupture: seismicity of the Dabbahu (Afar) rift
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C. J. Ebinger,1,2 D. Keir,2,3 A. Ayele,4 E. Calais,5 T. J. Wright,3 M. Belachew,1,4 J. O. S. Hammond,6 E. Campbell1 and W. R. Buck7 1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX, UK 3School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK 4Geophysical Observatory, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 1176 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 5Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, W Lafayette, IN, USA 6Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK 7Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, USA
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