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Early structures around the Afar triple junction

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ALTHOUGH the main development of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Ethiopian Rifts seems to have occurred since the Miocene1,2, important earlier structures exist which seem to have determined the detailed location and trends of the later structure.

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  1. Department of Geology, Haile Selassiet University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    R. BLACK & W. H. MORTON

  2. Geological Survey of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

    TSEGAYE HAILU

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BLACK, R., MORTON, W. & HAILU, T. Early structures around the Afar triple junction. Nature 248, 496–497 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248496a0

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