Publications
Conference presentations
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Journal Articles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hurman, G.L., Keir, D., McNeill, L.C., Pagli, C., Bull, J.M., Michas, G. Seismic and aseismic deformation in the Danakil Depression, East Africa and Corinth Rift, Greece: Magma-rich vs magma-poor rift extension. Tectonophysics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2025.230918
La Rosa, A., Pagli, C., Keir, D., Ayele, A., Wang, H., Rivalta, E., Lewi, E. Segmented dike intrusion linked to multi-level magma storage during and before the 2025 eruption at Erta Ale (East Africa). Frontiers in Earth Science, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1719687