Publications
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Conference presentations
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EGU 2021 vPICO presentation - Tue 27 April 2021
EGU21-14486 | vPICO presentations | SSP1.2/CL5.1.7/EMRP3.4/NH5.14
Afar Dallol Drilling – ONset of sedimentary processes in an active rift basin (ADD-ON): Scientific drilling targets in the Afar (Ethiopia)
Anneleen Foubert, Tesfaye Kidane, Derek Keir, Balemwal Atnafu, and the ICDP ADD-ON Team
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RAS meeting - Tectonics, Magmatism, and GeoResources of the East African Rift: Perspectives on past and future research - Fri 12 April 2024
Rifting in northern Afar and the ADD-ON ICDP drilling project
Derek Keir, and the ADD-ON Team
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Rifts and Rifted Margins online seminar series - Mon 3 June 2024
Session about Scientific drilling at rifts and rifted margins II
Afar Dallol Drilling : Drilling in the Afar as key to unlock the complexity of rifts and rifted margins (ADD-ON)
Anneleen Foubert, and the ADD-ON Team
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Rifts and Rifted Margins online seminar series - Mon 1 July 2024
Session about Rifting and sea level
The flooding of the Danakil rift basin (Afar, Ethiopia) Context, factors, mechanisms and future
Valentin Rime
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EGU 2024 - Tue 16 April 2024
EGU24-14326, | presentations | TS3.1
Low-angle normal faulting triggered by fluids
Carolina Pagli, Alessandro La Rosa, Derek Keir, Gareth Hurman, Hua Wang, Cecile Doubre, Renier Viltres, Martina Raggiunti, Atalay Ayele, Anneleen Foubert, Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi
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GSA Connects 2024 in Anaheim - September 2024
Vol. 56, id.403868, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-403868
Evaporites in the Danakil Depression (Afar, Ethiopia): from Recent Salt Lab to Deep Drilling
Cnneleen Foubert, Valentin Rime, Haileyesus Negga, Matteo Mangiagalli, Andres Rüggeberg, Balemwal Atnafu, Purificacion Lopez-Garcia, Derek Keir, Tesfaye Kidane
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EGU 2025 - Thur 30 April 2025
EGU25-4330, | presentations | TS2.3
The complex rift-to-drift transition: surprises and lessons from the Afar region
Valentin Rime, Derek Keir, Jordan Phethean, Tesfaye Kidane, and Anneleen Foubert
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Rifts and Rifted Margins online seminar series - Mon 7 July 2025
Session about Subsidence across scales - resource extraction, volcanism & tectonics
Ground subsidence in the Dallol geothermal area: Insights from InSAR Observations
Birhan Kebede
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Journal Articles
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Jaramillo-Vogel, D., Braga, J. C., Negga, H. A., Vennemann, T., De Boever, E., Schaegis, J. C., Rime, V., Atnafu, B., Kidane. T., Foubert, A. (2023). Pleistocene aragonite crust diagenesis mimics microbialite fabrics (Danakil Depression, Ethiopia). Sedimentary Geology, 446, 106341 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2023.106341
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La Rosa, A., Raggiunti, M., Pagli, C., Keir, D., Wang, H., & Ayele, A. (2023). Extensional earthquakes in the absence of magma in northern Afar: Insights from InSAR. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL102826 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102826
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Hurman, G., Keir, D., Bull, J.M., McNeill, L., Booth, A., Bastow, I.D. (2023). Quantitative Analysis of Faulting in the Danakil Depression Rift of Afar: The Importance of Faulting in the Final Stages of Magma-Rich Rifting. Tectonics, 42, e2022TC007607 https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007607
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Watts, E.J., Gernon, T.M., Taylor, R.N., Keir, D., Pagli, C. (2023). Quantitative Magmatic evolution during proto-oceanic rifting at Alu, Dalafilla and Borale Volcanoes (Afar) determined by trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry, Lithos, 456-457, 107311
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107311
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Rime, V., Foubert, A., Ruch, J., Kidane, T. (2023). Tectonostratigraphic evolution and significance of the Afar Depression, Earth-Science Reviews, 104519 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104519
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La Rosa, A., Pagli, C., Wang, H., Sigmundsson, F., Pinel, V., and Keir, D. (2024). Simultaneous rift-scale inflation of a deep crustal sill network in Afar (East Africa), Nature Communications, 15, 4287 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47136-4
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Foubert, A., Keir, D., Atnafu, B., Kidane, T., and the ADD-ON Workshop Consortium (2024). Workshop report: Afar Dallol Drilling - ONset of sedimentary processes in an active rift basin (ADD-ON), Scientific Drilling, 33, 207-218 https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-33-207-2024
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Rime, V., Keir, D., Phethean, J., Kidane, T., Foubert, A. (2024). Central Afar: An analogue for oceanic plateau development, Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G52330.1
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Endeshaw, A., Foubert A., Negga H., Atnafu B., Rime V., Keir D., Kidane T. and the ADD-ON Team (2024). From Coral Reefs Towards Unveiling The Deep Geobiosphere In Extreme Rift Settings: Afar Dallol Drilling (ADD-ON), Past Global Changes Magazine 32(2), https://pastglobalchanges.org/news/138351
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Kebede, B.A., Pagli, C., Keir, D., Sigmundsson, F., La Rosa, A., Wang, H., Lewi, E. and Gudbrandsson, S., 2025. Continuous subsidence of Dallol volcano caused by magmatic, hydrothermal, and salt dissolution processes: Insights from InSAR observations. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26(4), e2024GC012048. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC012048
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Rooney, T.O., Bastow, I.D., Fontijn, K., Mariita, N., Muirhead, J.D. and Keir, D., 2025. The East African Rift System. Extensional Tectonics: Rifting and Continental Extension, 2, 21-54. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119773757.ch2
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Rime, V., Negga, H., Fentimen, R., Rüggeberg, A., El Korh, A., Pirkenseer, C., Schaegis, J.C., Hajdas, I., Adatte, T., Atnafu, B. and Kidane, T., 2025. Nature and significance of Late Pleistocene to Holocene thick evaporite deposits of the Danakil Depression, Afar, Ethiopia. Sedimentology, 72(2), 475-506. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13237
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Watts, E.J., Rees, R., Jonathan, P. et al. Mantle upwelling at Afar triple junction shaped by overriding plate dynamics. Nature Geoscience, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01717-0
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