The Afar Triple Junction (also called the Afro-Arabian Rift System) is located along a divergent plate boundary dividing the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian...

The Afar Triangle (also called the Afar Depression) is a geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction, which is part of the Great Rift Valley...

A triple junction is the point where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet. At the triple junction each of the three boundaries will be one of...

African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting...

the Afar Triple Junction, the rift follows two paths: west to the Red Sea Rift and east to the Aden Ridge in the Gulf of Aden. Southward from the Afar Triple...

East Africa Afar Triple Junction, a geological rift system which divides the Nubian, Somalian, and Arabian plates French Territory of the Afars and the Issas...

Rift that runs through Ethiopia in a southwest direction from the Afar Triple Junction. In the past, it was seen as part of a "Great Rift Valley" that ran...

with the Aden Ridge and the East African Rift, forming the Afar Triple Junction in the Afar Depression of the Horn of Africa. The Red Sea Rift was formed...

extending from the Owen Transform Fault in the Arabian Sea to the Afar Triple Junction or Afar Plume beneath the Gulf of Tadjoura in Djibouti. The Gulf of Aden...

break-up of Gondwana can be said to continue in eastern Africa at the Afar Triple Junction, which separates the Arabian, Nubian, and Somali plates, resulting...

Ocean Afar Triple Junction – Place where three tectonic rifts meet in East Africa Azores Triple Junction – Tectonic plates intersection Banda Sea Triple Junction –...

Main Ethiopian Rift as the opening of the Gregory rift caused the Afar Triple Junction to form. Volcanism from the Middle Pleistocene onward formed a chain...

metres (26 ft) wide dike within days. The Afar Depression, a plate tectonic triple junction, is found in the Afar Regional State. This geologic feature is...

hotspot), w= .2 az= 030° ±15° rate= 16 ±8 mm/yr Possibly related to the Afar Triple Junction, 30 Ma. Cameroon hotspot (17) 2°00′N 5°06′E / 2.0°N 5.1°E / 2...

portal Geography portal Geology portal Afar Triangle – Geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction Geography of Iceland List of oceanic landforms –...

upwelling which may cause narrow rift zones, such as those of the Afar Triple Junction. Geologic processes that elevate heat flow are varied, however some...

the lakes' searingly hot temperatures. Erta Ale is located in the Afar triple junction where three tectonic plates split apart: the African Plate, the Arabian...

half-grabens similar to the East African Rift, which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa. The Northern Cordilleran rift system...

It lies at the Afar Triple Junction, the central meeting place for the three pieces of the Earth's crust, a defining feature of the Afar Depression. Here...

part extends northward from a triple point junction near the island of Rodrigues (the Rodrigues Triple Point) to a junction with the Owen Fracture Zone...

Arabian Plate lies adjacent to the Afar Triple Junction (an area of spreading ridges) near the Red Sea. The triple junction marks the intersecting point of...

The Danakil Depression is the northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression in Ethiopia and Eritrea, a geological depression that has resulted...

Afar rift consortium, an inter-disciplinary study of how the Earth’s crust grows at divergent plate boundaries, looking at the Afar Triple Junction....

a 3,000-km-long Cenozoic age continental rift extending from the Afar Triple Junction (between the horn of Africa and the Middle East), to Mozambique....

southwestern point of the Arabian Plate. At this location lies the Afar Triple Junction, where it meets the Nubian and Somali plates at three divergent boundaries...

Hopkins he became interested in the plate tectonics of the Afar Depression, a triple (rift) junction in northeastern Ethiopia. In 1971 he moved to Addis Ababa...

Plate to the east. One hypothesis proposes a mantle plume rising beneath the Afar region pushing the crust outward, whereas an opposing hypothesis explains...

to form the East African Rift, which stretches south from the triple junction in the Afar depression. The southern boundary with the Nubian-African Plate...

those associated with the East African Rift, which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa. List of volcanoes in the United...

underway in the Afar Depression of the East African Rift system. The southwest and southeast extensions represent two arms of the triple junction while a third...