Late Cenozoic Rift Sedimentation, Volcanism and Tectonism in the Southern Red Sea-Northern Danakil Regions, Eritrea

9725405巴夫勒厄立特里亚红海南部-达纳基尔北部地区位于阿法尔凹陷的北端，该凹陷是一个主要的板块边界三联点，由上升的地幔热柱支撑。在这里，三个活跃的大陆裂谷汇合，三个主要板块随着洋壳的形成而分离。最近的情况使这一活跃地区的研究工作得以解决几个构造裂谷过程、构造反转以及对裂谷沉积和古人类的控制。预计结果将提供支持原始人研究的构造和地质框架数据，并提供对近三点裂谷过程的洞察。

9725405 Buffler The southern Red Sea-northern Danakil region of Eritrea is located at the northern apex of the Afar depression, which represents a major plate boundary triple junction underlain by an upwelling mantle plume. Here three active continental rifts converge and three major plates are separating with the formation of oceanic crust. Recent circumstances have allowed research efforts in this active area to address several tectonic rift processes, tectonic inversion, and controls on rift sedimentation and hominid paleontology. Results are expected to provide tectonic and geologic framework data in support of hominid studies as well as providing insight into near-triple point rift processes.