Ethiopian Sea opening
Saturday July 2, 2005
The intriguing Afar region, on the Ethiopian seacoast across from Yemen, is getting a new portrait made with a seismic array (like the USArray experiment). This from a backgrounder press release from the University of Leicester, which by the way has a prodigious news apparatus. It's part of Project EAGLE (the Ethiopia Afar Geoscientific Lithospheric Experiment). The Afar is stretching apart into a young ocean, the best spot on Earth to study this process. Supposedly there are mantle plumes and "dense igneous rock" plutons under it all. We'll see what the anti-plumists make of the data. There's a lot to learn from this project, both about the upper mantle and about conducting this kind of research.


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Can you please send me the full document through my Address? I’m looking for it for research purpose.
Fasil, you will need to contact the author’s institution. Follow the link in my post.