Thick lithosphere, deep crustal earthquakes and no melt: a triple challenge to understanding extension in the western branch of the East African Rift

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• lithosphere 57%
• mantle 46%
• rifting 46%
• melt 46%
• thermal alteration 45%
• earthquake 41%
• continental lithosphere 38%
• speed 31%
• S-wave 28%
• heating 22%
• brittle deformation 20%
• seismic wave 15%
• lower crust 15%
• geodynamics 15%
• upper mantle 15%
• volcanism 14%
• seismicity 14%
• magmatism 14%
• olivine 14%
• rupture 14%
• faulting 14%
• tomography 13%
• weathering 13%
• uplift 13%
• plateau 11%
• topography 11%
• lake 9%

Physics & Astronomy

• lithosphere 100%
• earthquakes 78%
• Earth mantle 62%
• intrusion 42%
• S waves 21%
• geodynamics 17%
• signatures 17%
• volcanology 15%
• weathering 15%
• seismic waves 14%
• lakes 14%
• olivine 13%
• heating 13%
• crusts 13%
• elastic deformation 12%
• dynamic models 11%
• yield strength 11%
• plateaus 9%
• topography 9%
• envelopes 9%
• tomography 8%
• shear 7%

Chemistry

• Shear 58%
• Seismic Wave 46%
• Wave 39%
• Elastic Deformation 31%
• Weathering 25%
• Yield Point 24%
• Dimension 15%
• Force 14%
• Surface 13%