Strain Accommodation by Slow Slip and Dyking in a Youthful Continental Rift, East Africa

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dc.creatorCalais, Eric
dc.creatord’Oreye, Nicolas
dc.creatorAlbaric, Julie
dc.creatorDeschamps, Anne
dc.creatorDelvaux, Damien
dc.creatorDéverchère, Jacques
dc.creatorEbinger, Cynthia
dc.creatorFerdinand, Richard W.
dc.creatorKervyn, François
dc.creatorMacheyeki, Athanas S.
dc.creatorOyen, Anneleen
dc.creatorPerrot, Julie
dc.creatorSaria, Elifuraha
dc.creatorSmets, Benoit
dc.creatorStamps, Sarah D.
dc.creatorWauthier, Christelle
dc.date2016-06-13T06:01:07Z
dc.date2016-06-13T06:01:07Z
dc.date2008
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-27T08:57:08Z
dc.date.available2018-03-27T08:57:08Z
dc.descriptionContinental rifts begin and develop through repeated episodes of faulting and magmatism, but strain partitioning between faulting and magmatism during discrete rifting episodes remains poorly documented. In highly evolved rifts, tensile stresses from far-field plate motions accumulate over decades before being released during relatively short time intervals by faulting and magmatic intrusions. These rifting crises are rarely observed in thick lithosphere during the initial stages of rifting. Here we show that most of the strain during the July-August 2007 seismic crisis in the weakly extended Natron rift, Tanzania, was released aseismically. Deformation was achieved by slow slip on a normal fault that promoted subsequent dyke intrusion by stress unclamping. This event provides compelling evidence for strain accommodation by magma intrusion, in addition to slip along normal faults, during the initial stages of continental rifting and before significant crustal thinning.
dc.identifierCalais, E., d’Oreye, N., Albaric, J., Deschamps, A., Delvaux, D., Déverchere, J., Ebinger, C., Ferdinand, R.W., Kervyn, F., Macheyeki, A.S. and Oyen, A., 2008. Strain accommodation by slow slip and dyking in a youthful continental rift, East Africa. Nature, 456(7223), pp.783-787.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2421
dc.identifier10.1038/nature07478
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2421
dc.languageen
dc.titleStrain Accommodation by Slow Slip and Dyking in a Youthful Continental Rift, East Africa
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Reviewed

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