No. 31 · Tectonophysics · 20 December 2023

Structure of the crust-uppermost mantle beneath the Ethiopian volcanic province using ambient seismic noise and teleseismic P wave coda autocorrelation

Sisay Alemayehu, Abdelkrim Aoudia, Atalay Ayele, Surya Pachhai, Hari Ram Thapa, Cynthia J. Ebinger, Radia Kherchouche, Mariangela Guidarelli, Seongryong Kim

DOI 10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230092 Publisher page Cite Geodynamics and Earth structure

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Afar crust is thinner than 25 km, whereas the Ethiopian plateau and Main Ethiopian Rift generally exceed 35 km; lower-crustal anomalies suggest plateau underplating and localized asthenospheric upwelling.

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Sisay Alemayehu, Abdelkrim Aoudia, Atalay Ayele, Surya Pachhai, Hari Ram Thapa, Cynthia J. Ebinger, Radia Kherchouche, Mariangela Guidarelli, and Seongryong Kim (2023), Structure of the crust-uppermost mantle beneath the Ethiopian volcanic province using ambient seismic noise and teleseismic P wave coda autocorrelation, Tectonophysics, 869, 230092, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230092.