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earthquakes, volcanoes, breaking the continents
reposted by
@rehachandresh.bsky.social
at a sheeted dike swarm of the
www.afarstratoid.com
during
@talents-dn.bsky.social
fieldwork.
@seismatters.bsky.social
@sasbrune.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@gimmi-p.bsky.social
13 days ago
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@alarosa.bsky.social
new paper of dike intrusion at Erta Ale in July 2025 now out
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@sasbrune.bsky.social
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Segmented dike intrusion linked to multi-level magma storage during and before the 2025 eruption at Erta Ale (East Africa)
IntroductionDike intrusions can assist continental rifting and plate divergence. However, our understanding of the magma dynamics during diking and the archi...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1719687
13 days ago
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@alarosa.bsky.social
new paper of dike intrusion at Erta Ale in July 2025 now out
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@sasbrune.bsky.social
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Segmented dike intrusion linked to multi-level magma storage during and before the 2025 eruption at Erta Ale (East Africa)
IntroductionDike intrusions can assist continental rifting and plate divergence. However, our understanding of the magma dynamics during diking and the archi...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1719687
13 days ago
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@rehachandresh.bsky.social
at a sheeted dike swarm of the
www.afarstratoid.com
during
@talents-dn.bsky.social
fieldwork.
@seismatters.bsky.social
@sasbrune.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@gimmi-p.bsky.social
13 days ago
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Alex Whittaker and
@rehachandresh.bsky.social
on
@talents-dn.bsky.social
fieldwork in Dobi graben if Afar Looking at a fault breccia in a normal fault zone.
#tectonics
#geology
@sasbrune.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@alarosa.bsky.social
13 days ago
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Sascha Brune
14 days ago
⚒️ What can geodetic techniques reveal about continental rifting? ⚒️ Find out in our next
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
on Dec 1st, 4 pm CET with Sarah Stamps,
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
, James Wood Register
uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Past talks
www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
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reposted by
Sascha Brune
26 days ago
👇 A great collaboration with
@gernon.bsky.social
, Thea Hincks, Martin Palmer (all
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
), Chris Spencer (Queen’s University),
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
(Swansea University) and Anne Glerum (
@gfz.bsky.social
) 👇
add a skeleton here at some point
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Hayli Gubbi - some of my photos from the Hayli Gubbi tephra sampling expedition on 24 Nov 2025 from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@alarosa.bsky.social
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
@volckaren.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@alarosa.bsky.social
15 days ago
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The Hayli Gubbi tephra has been sampled. These are photos from my sampling expedition on 24 Nov with the University of Semera from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi
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@alarosa.bsky.social
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Hayli Gubbi - some of my photos from the Hayli Gubbi tephra sampling expedition on 24 Nov 2025 from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@alarosa.bsky.social
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
@volckaren.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@alarosa.bsky.social
15 days ago
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The Hayli Gubbi tephra has been sampled. These are photos from my sampling expedition on 24 Nov with the University of Semera from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@alarosa.bsky.social
15 days ago
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Carolina Pagli
15 days ago
Basaltic dike in Erta Ale triggers explosive eruption in Hayli Gubbi. Read our new paper!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
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Frontiers | Segmented dike intrusion linked to multi-level magma storage during and before the 2025 eruption at Erta Ale (East Africa)
Dike intrusions can assist continental rifting and plate divergence. However, our understanding of the magma dynamics during diking and the architecture of t...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1719687/abstract
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Prof. Simon Carn
16 days ago
An explosive
#eruption
of Hayli Gubbi
#volcano
, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a
@planet.com
overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
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Advert for geophysics / tectonics PhD on the Corinth rift advertised now
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Faulting, earthquakes and fluid flow during continental extension at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Faulting, earthquakes and fluid flow during continental extension at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/faulting-earthquakes-and-fluid-flow-during-continental-extension/?p187806
26 days ago
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Advert and application information for PhD on magma production and evolution during continental rifting
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
26 days ago
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Advert for geophysics / tectonics PhD on the Corinth rift advertised now
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Faulting, earthquakes and fluid flow during continental extension at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Faulting, earthquakes and fluid flow during continental extension at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/faulting-earthquakes-and-fluid-flow-during-continental-extension/?p187806
26 days ago
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Advert and application information for PhD on magma production and evolution during continental rifting
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
26 days ago
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Sascha Brune
about 1 month ago
⚒️ What does rift topography reveal about tectonic, magmatic and surface processes? ⚒️ Nov 3rd, 4 pm CET
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with
@rehachandresh.bsky.social
@jrarrowsmith.bsky.social
David Fernández-Blanco Register
uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
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Interested in geothermal resources in East Africa? If so then have a read of this new paper on the use of gravity data at Corbetti volcano in Ethiopia by Simeneh Wassihun
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@robrizzo.bsky.social
@rvinews.bsky.social
@afardalloldrilling.bsky.social
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Subsurface magmatic structure beneath the nested Awasa-Corbetti caldera complex, Main Ethiopian Rift, as determined from gravity data
The nested Awasa–Corbetti caldera complex (ACC) in the central Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) encompasses the Corbetti caldera complex, which is presently …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X25003589?dgcid=coauthor
about 2 months ago
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Interested in geothermal resources in East Africa? If so then have a read of this new paper on the use of gravity data at Corbetti volcano in Ethiopia by Simeneh Wassihun
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@robrizzo.bsky.social
@rvinews.bsky.social
@afardalloldrilling.bsky.social
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Subsurface magmatic structure beneath the nested Awasa-Corbetti caldera complex, Main Ethiopian Rift, as determined from gravity data
The nested Awasa–Corbetti caldera complex (ACC) in the central Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) encompasses the Corbetti caldera complex, which is presently …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X25003589?dgcid=coauthor
about 2 months ago
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Carolina Pagli
3 months ago
When Italian airports have an edge!
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This new paper by Sisay Alemaheyu of Addis Ababa University shows that there are earthquakes beneath the Ethiopian plateau, far away from the East African rift. Distributed extension.
@afardalloldrilling.bsky.social
@rvinews.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
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Frontiers | The first observation of seismicity beneath the northwestern Ethiopian plateau and its seismotectonic implications
The seismotectonics of the Northwestern (NW) Ethiopian plateau and the adjacent rift flanks were studied using local earthquake data recorded by broadband se...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1643092/full
2 months ago
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Alessandro La Rosa
2 months ago
Our new study on
@egu.eu
SE combines automatic fault mapping, geodesy and rock dating to reconstruct the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Afar rift during the last 4.5 Myrs.
@sasbrune.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@derekkeir.bsky.social
@gimmi-p.bsky.social
@earth-science.bsky.social
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Cross-scale strain analysis in the Afar rift (East Africa) from automatic fault mapping and geodesy
Abstract. The formation of continental rift systems is characterised by the interplay of magmatic and tectonic processes. Their evolution involves a wide range of timescales, from centennial scales of...
https://se.copernicus.org/articles/16/929/2025/
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Sascha Brune
2 months ago
⚒️ Interested in the latest analog modelling advances for understanding rifts? ⚒️ Join our
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with Valentina Armeni, Timothy Schmid, & Daniele Maestrelli Monday, Oct 6th, 4 pm CEST Register
uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Past talks
www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
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The fully published version of a comparison of seismic v geodetic moment rate of Afar and Corinth rifts available at
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lodn_wVTd...
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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The fully published version of a comparison of seismic v geodetic moment rate of Afar and Corinth rifts available at
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lodn_wVTd...
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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ADD-ON - Afar Dallol Drilling
3 months ago
@icdpdrilling.bsky.social
@derekkeir.bsky.social
@
www.afardalloldrilling.com
"On the way to drill deep in science: Danakil Depression"
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Alessandro La Rosa
3 months ago
First day passed at LASI VII in Iceland, with many Inspiring talks and posters on magmatic intrusions in various geodynamic contexts! We presented our 2024 natcomm study on the pressurizion of a deep sill network in the Afar rift
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@derekkeir.bsky.social
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reposted by
Sascha Brune
4 months ago
⚒️ Interested in the latest machine learning advances for understanding rifts? ⚒️ Join our
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with Tolulope Olugboji, Eric Beaucé,
@gimmi-p.bsky.social
Monday, Sept 1st, 4 pm CEST Register
uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Past talks
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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New ideas published in
@geosociety.bsky.social
Geology that the Northern Appalachian anomaly beneath the Eastern US is a migrating small-scale convection cell originating from past rifting of the Labrador Sea
@gernon.bsky.social
@sasbrune.bsky.social
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
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A viable Labrador Sea rifting origin of the Northern Appalachian and related seismic anomalies | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G53588.1/659899/A-viable-Labrador-Sea-rifting-origin-of-the
4 months ago
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New ideas published in
@geosociety.bsky.social
Geology that the Northern Appalachian anomaly beneath the Eastern US is a migrating small-scale convection cell originating from past rifting of the Labrador Sea
@gernon.bsky.social
@sasbrune.bsky.social
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
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A viable Labrador Sea rifting origin of the Northern Appalachian and related seismic anomalies | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G53588.1/659899/A-viable-Labrador-Sea-rifting-origin-of-the
4 months ago
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Congrats to Rhiannon Rees on publication of her trace element study from Ayelu, Abida and Gabilema volcanoes in the Ethiopian rift
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@gernon.bsky.social
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Melt generation and evolution in the Adda’do rift segment of the Afar rift from trace elements and petrography
Along-rift variations in the stage of continental separation are observed in the northern East African Rift System (EARS), from magma-assisted continental ri...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1575660/full
5 months ago
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Congrats to Rhiannon Rees on publication of her trace element study from Ayelu, Abida and Gabilema volcanoes in the Ethiopian rift
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@gernon.bsky.social
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Melt generation and evolution in the Adda’do rift segment of the Afar rift from trace elements and petrography
Along-rift variations in the stage of continental separation are observed in the northern East African Rift System (EARS), from magma-assisted continental ri...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1575660/full
5 months ago
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Roberto Rizzo
5 months ago
🎉 Our new
#PrePrint
, "Fault stability and reactivation risks in the Tulu Moye geothermal field, Main Ethiopian Rift," is now available. Crucial insights for sustainable
#GeothermalEnergy
. 👇
#FaultMechanics
#RockMechanics
#StructuralGeology
@derekkeir.bsky.social
;
@earth-science.bsky.social
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ADD-ON - Afar Dallol Drilling
5 months ago
The ADD-ON project has contributed to understanding the recent eruptive activity at Erta Ale volcano in Afar. See the activity report at
comet.nerc.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@derekkeir.bsky.social
@alarosa.bsky.social
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https://comet.nerc.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/COMET_EventReport1.1_ErtaAle.pdf
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If you are interested in the Fentale diking episode then have a read of Prof. Elias Lewi's new paper in Bull. Volc.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@alarosa.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
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Scientific response to the 2024–2025 dyke intrusions in the Fentale-Dofen Region, Ethiopia: geophysical monitoring, surface manifestations, and hazard mapping - Bulletin of Volcanology
In continental rifts, tectonic deformation, magmatic processes, and earthquakes interact dynamically reflecting the crust’s complex response to extensional stress and evolving subsurface and surface c...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00445-025-01852-x?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250714&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs00445-025-01852-x
5 months ago
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If you are interested in the Fentale diking episode then have a read of Prof. Elias Lewi's new paper in Bull. Volc.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@alarosa.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
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Scientific response to the 2024–2025 dyke intrusions in the Fentale-Dofen Region, Ethiopia: geophysical monitoring, surface manifestations, and hazard mapping - Bulletin of Volcanology
In continental rifts, tectonic deformation, magmatic processes, and earthquakes interact dynamically reflecting the crust’s complex response to extensional stress and evolving subsurface and surface c...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00445-025-01852-x?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250714&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs00445-025-01852-x
5 months ago
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ADD-ON - Afar Dallol Drilling
5 months ago
An advert to see Dr Birhan Kebede talk about the ongoing subsidence at Dallol observed by InSAR in the Rifts and Rifted Margins seminar series
www.gfz.de/sektion/geod...
to subscribe for the session use link at
www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/subscr...
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@derekkeir.bsky.social
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Rift and Rifted Margins Online Seminar
https://www.gfz.de/sektion/geodynamische-modellierung/projekte/rift-and-rifted-margins-online-seminar
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Sascha Brune
5 months ago
⚒️ What do the ups and downs of rifts tell us about tectonics, volcanism and fluid flow? ⚒️ Join our
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with Kyle Murray, Birhan Kebede, Bodo Bookhagen Monday July 7th, 4 pm CET Register
uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Past talks
www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
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Interested in the Turkana rift in East Africa? If so have a peak at the latest research by Corti et al. in GRL of the
@agu.org
@sasbrune.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Control of Gravitational Potential Energy on the Distribution of Off‐Rift Volcanic Activity in the Turkana Depression, East African Rift
We analyze volcanic vent distribution and calculate the Gravitational Potential Energy (GPE) in the Turkana Depression, East Africa GPE-related stresses resulting from variations in topography an...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024GL114277?campaign=woletoc
5 months ago
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Interested in the Turkana rift in East Africa? If so have a peak at the latest research by Corti et al. in GRL of the
@agu.org
@sasbrune.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Control of Gravitational Potential Energy on the Distribution of Off‐Rift Volcanic Activity in the Turkana Depression, East African Rift
We analyze volcanic vent distribution and calculate the Gravitational Potential Energy (GPE) in the Turkana Depression, East Africa GPE-related stresses resulting from variations in topography an...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024GL114277?campaign=woletoc
5 months ago
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Luca Caricchi
5 months ago
@iavcei.bsky.social
#SA2025
in
#Geneva
is in full swing! Hot hot hot, but fantastic atmosphere! Amazing to see the city invaded of the peaceful
#volcanology
crowd!
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Fumihiko Ikegami
7 months ago
I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
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First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ubC4bcgRM
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LastQuake
6 months ago
Εγκαταστήστε δωρεάν το LastQuake για άμεση πληροφόρηση για σεισμους.Μοιραστείτε με άλλους την εμπειρία σας: 📱
https://m.emsc.eu/#app
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for a nice summary of the work on the pulsing Afar plume by
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
see this article in
@newsweek.com
www.newsweek.com/geology-plat...
@gernon.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
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Magma "heartbeat" is tearing continent apart, geologists discover
"The plume is pulsing," said Earth Science professor Tom Gernon of the University of Southampton.
https://www.newsweek.com/geology-plate-tectonics-rift-mantle-plue-heartbeat-africa-afar-2089881
6 months ago
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In this new paper in
@natgeosci.nature.com
by
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
, she uses analysis of seismic and geochemical data to see pulsing of a mantle plume and how it flows along the rift
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@gernon.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mantle upwelling at Afar triple junction shaped by overriding plate dynamics - Nature Geoscience
The mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates that shape the distribution of both the compositional heterogeneities and abund...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01717-0
6 months ago
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University of Southampton
6 months ago
@natgeosci.nature.com
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
@gernon.bsky.social
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
@derekkeir.bsky.social
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University of Southampton
6 months ago
Our scientists have discovered deep Earth pulses beneath Africa that are slowly, over millions of years, tearing the continent apart and forming a new ocean 🌊 Read more 👉
https://tr.ee/Rj8ooV
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Nature Geoscience
6 months ago
www.newsweek.com/geology-plat...
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Magma "heartbeat" is tearing continent apart, geologists discover
"The plume is pulsing," said Earth Science professor Tom Gernon of the University of Southampton.
https://www.newsweek.com/geology-plate-tectonics-rift-mantle-plue-heartbeat-africa-afar-2089881
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Nature Geoscience
6 months ago
⚒️ Article: Mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
@derekkeir.bsky.social
@gernon.bsky.social
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
@swanseavolctephra.bsky.social
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