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Distributed Nubia-Somalia relative motion and dike intrusion in the Main Ethiopian Rift

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Bendick, R.
McClusky, Simon
Bilham, R.
Asfaw, L.
Klemperer, S.

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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The Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) in central Ethiopia extended in the rift-normal direction at a mean rate of 4.0 ± 0.9 mm yr-1(1σ) during the period 1992-2003, nearly a factor of two slower than the opening rate estimated from global plate motion inversion

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Geophysical Journal International

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2037-12-31