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Recent rift-related volcanism in Afar, Ethiopia (PDF file). D.J. Ferguson, T.D. Barnie, D.M. Pyle, C. Oppenheimer, G. Yirgu, E. Lewi, T. Kidane, S. Carn, I.J. Hamling (2010) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j. epsl.2010.02.010
Non-technical summary

Post rifting relaxation in the Afar Region, Ethiopia (PDF file). S.L. Nooner, L. Bennati, E. Calais, W.R. Buck, I.J. Hamling, T.J. Wright & E. Lewi (2009) Geophysical Research Letters, vol 36, L21308, doi:10.1029/2009GL040502.
Non-technical summary

Imaging detailed crustal structure and magmatic intrusion across the Ethiopian Rift using a dense linear broadband array (PDF file). D.G. Cornwell, P.K.H. Maguire, R.W. England & G.W. Stuart (2010) Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 11, Q0AB03, doi:10.1029/2009 GC002637.
Non-technical summary

Geodetic observations of the ongoing Dabbahu rifting episode: new dyke intrusions in 2006 and 2007 (PDF file). I. Hamling, A. Ayele, L. Bennati, E. Calais, C.J. Ebinger, D. Keir, E. Lewi, T.J. Wright & G.Yirgu (2009) Geophysical Journal International, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04163.x
Non-technical summary

September 2005 mega-dike emplacement in the Manda-Harraro nascent oceanic rift (Afar depression) (PDF file). A. Ayele, D. Keir, C. Ebinger, T.J. Wright, G.W. Stuart, W.R. Buck, E. Jacques, G. Ogubazghi & J. Sholan, (2009). Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 36, L20306, doi:10.1029/2009GL039605, 2009
Non-technical summary

Paleomagnetism of the Fentale-magmatic segment, main Ethiopian Rift: New evidence for counterclockwise block rotation linked to transtensional deformation (PDF file). T. Kidane, Y-I. Otofuji, Y. Komatsu, H. Shibasaki, J. Rowland, (2009). Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 176 109–123.
Non-technical summary

Lower crustal earthquakes near the Ethiopian rift induced by magmatic processes (PDF file). D. Keir, I.D. Bastow, K.A. Whaler, E. Daly, D.G. Cornwall & S. Hautot, (2009). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10, Q0AB02, doi:10.1029/2009GC002382
Non-technical summary

Evidence for focused magmatic accretion at segment centers from lateral dike injections captured beneath the Red Sea rift in Afar (PDF file) D. Keir, I.J. Hamling, A. Ayele, E. Calais, C.J. Ebinger, T.J. Wright, E. Jacques, K. Mohamed, J.O.S. Hammond, M. Belachew, E. Baker, J.V. Rowland, E. Lewi, L. Bennati. Geology 2009;37;59-62. doi:10.1130/G25147A.1
Non-technical summary

Surface displacements in the September 2005 Afar rifting event from satellite image matching: Asymmetric uplift and faulting (PDF file). I. Barisin, S. Leprince, B. Parsons & T.J. Wright. (2009). Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 7, CiteID L07301

Upper mantle seismic structure beneath the Ethiopian hot spot: Rifting at the edge of the African low-velocity anomaly (PDF file). I.D. Bastow, A.A. Nyblade, G.W. Stuart, T.O. Rooney & M.H. Benoit, (2008). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, 12, Q12022, doi:10.1029/2008GC002107

Capturing magma intrusion and faulting processes during continental rupture: seismicity of the Dabbahu (Afar) rift (pdf file). C.J. Ebinger, D. Keir, A. Ayele, E. Calais, T.J. Wright, M. Belachew, J.O.S. Hammond, E. Campbell and W. R. Buck (2008) Geophysical Journal International doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03877.x

Watching from Afar (pdf file). D. Keir (2008). Planet Earth (Autumn 2008) NERC. 16-17

Fault growth at a nascent slow-spreading ridge: 2005 Dabbahu rifting episode, Afar (pdf file). J.V. Rowland, E. Baker, D. Keir, T. Kidane, J. Biggs, N. Hayward, T.J. Wright & C. Ebinger, (2007). Geophysical Journal International, 171, pp.1226-1246. doi:doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03584.x

Magma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode (pdf file). T.J. Wright, C. Ebinger, J. Biggs, A. Ayele, G. Yirgu, D. Keir & A. Stork, (2006) , Nature, 442, 291-294, 2006