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Initial insights into the continent-ocean transition along the Angolan margin
RIFT TO RIDGE: BRIDGING THE EXTENSIONAL GAP I POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 13 december 2024
Tyrone O. Rooney, Dougal A. Jerram, Louis L. Jacob...
As a continental rift evolves towards an oceanic spreading center, the mechanism of extensional strain accommodation shifts from plate thinning to mag...
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Basaltic Pulses and Lithospheric Thinning—Plio‐Pleistocene Magmatism and Rifting in the Turkana Depression (East African Rift System)
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
05 august 2024
Sahira Cancel Vazquez, Tyrone O. Rooney, Eric Brow...
The East African Rift System (EARS) provides an opportunity to constrain the relationship between magmatism and plate thinning. During continental ...
Magma Evolution During Main‐Phase Continental Flood Basalt Volcanism: A Case for Recharge‐Evacuation‐Assimilation‐Fractional Crystallization in the Ethiopian Low‐Ti Province
GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS
05 march 2024
Susan R. Krans, Tyrone O. Rooney, John W. Kappelma...
Lavas erupted in Continental Flood Basalt (CFB) provinces are not primary magmas; they are differentiated products that result from large volumes o...
The transition to focused magmatism in the East African Rift System – a tale of two Depressions
FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTS TO RIFTED MARGINS IV ORAL
tectonophysics | 12 december 2023
Tyrone O. Rooney, Andrew Bollinger, Sahira Cancel ...
During the terminal stages of continental rifting, magmatism may become localized into belts of focused magmatic and tectonic activity within the rift...
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Receiver function and surface-wave analysis of the Moho and lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary below the Turkana Depression, East Africa
FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTS TO RIFTED MARGINS III POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Christopher Steven Ogden, Rita Kounoudis, Ian D. B...
The Turkana Depression is a broad (~500km-wide), topographically-subdued (~0.5km), region between the elevated Ethiopian (~1.5km) and East African Pla...
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Constraining the Origin of Metasomatic Enrichment in the Turkana Depression Lithospheric Mantle
FROM CONTINENTAL RIFTS TO RIFTED MARGINS III POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Andrew Bollinger, Tyrone O. Rooney, Sahira Cancel ...
During the process of continental rifting, extension and magmatism often work in tandem to accommodate strain within the lithosphere. The East African...
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Magmatism During the Continent – Ocean Transition
FROM DEEP LITHOSPHERE TO EARTH SURFACE PROCESS; THE NATURAL LABORATORY OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT I ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2022
Tyrone O. Rooney, Eric Brown, Ian D. Bastow, Ramon...
A fundamental principle of the plate tectonic paradigm is that continental rifting may proceed to oceanic spreading. However, the change between the t...
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Resolving Source Components for Low-Ti Lavas in a Continental Flood Basalt Province using Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotopes
HOTSPOTS AND PLUMES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXAMINATION OF THE CRITICAL LINK BETWEEN DEEP AND SHALLOW EARTH PROCESSES III ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 13 december 2022
Susan R. Krans, Tyrone O. Rooney, John W. Kappelma...
Continental flood basalt (CFB) provinces typically erupt two distinct basalt compositionslow-Ti and high-Ti. The origin of these basalts has been expl...
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