Most of the Earth's crust is created along 60,000 km of mid-ocean ridge system. Here,
tectonic plates spread apart and, in doing so, gradually build up stress. This stress is …

Although fault and magmatic processes have achieved plate spreading at mid-ocean ridges
throughout Earth's history, discrete rifting episodes have rarely been observed. This paper …

On 10 May 2018, an unprecedented long and intense seismic crisis started offshore, east of
Mayotte, the easternmost of the Comoros volcanic islands. The population felt hundreds of …

Volcanic seismology represents the main, and often the only, tool to forecast volcanic
eruptions and to monitor the eruption process. This book describes the main types of seismic …

The Afar depression is an ideal locale to study the role of extension and magmatism as
rifting progresses to seafloor spreading. Here we present receiver function results from new …

Image correlation is one of the most efficient techniques to determine horizontal ground
displacements due to earthquakes, landslides, ice flows or sand dune migrations. Analyzing …

New geochemical data integrated in a petrogenetic model indicate that the∼ 30 Ma
Northern Ethiopian continental flood basalts (CFBs) preserve a record of magmas generated …

Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ), New Zealand, is a NNE-trending rifting arc, active for~ 2 Myr,
with a 125-km-long central segment characterized by exceptionally voluminous rhyolite …

We examine some long-standing assumptions about the early use of coastlines and marine
resources and their contribution to the pattern of early human dispersal, and focus on the …

We provide a new set of complementary geodetic data for the 2005 rifting event of Afar
(Ethiopia). Interferometric synthetic aperture radar and subpixel correlations of synthetic …