East African Rift
Three novel bacteriophages isolated from the East African Rift Valley soda lakes
... Three novel bacteriophages isolated from the East African Rift Valley soda lakes RESEARCH Open Access Three novel bacteriophages isolated from the East African Rift Valley soda lakes Leonardo Joaquim[.] ...
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Small-scale thermal upwellings under the northern East African Rift from S travel time tomography
... the East African Rift has increased, ...the rift system with more stations and/or by making use of a larger part of the waveforms will be necessary to identify the lower mantle source of the ...
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Small scale thermal upwellings under the Northern East African Rift from S travel time tomography
... the East African Rift has increased, ...the rift system with more stations and/or by making use of a larger part of the waveforms will be necessary to identify the lower mantle source of the ...
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Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Production and Mutagenesis of Halophile isolates from the East African Rift Salt Lake
... Polyhydroxybutyrate are considerably of human interest due to their outstanding properties as bioplastic to effectively replace polyethylene. In this study, halophiles were used for the production of bioplastics. Current ...
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Seismicity from February 2006 to September 2007 at the Rwenzori Mountains, East African Rift: earthquake distribution, magnitudes and source mechanisms
... the East African ...the east and west of the Rwenzoris with the highest seismic activity ob- served in the northeastern area, where the mountains are in contact with the rift ...the ...
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Giant seismites and megablock uplift in the East African Rift: evidence for Late Pleistocene large magnitude earthquakes
... Rodríguez-Pascua et al. [4] qualitatively related particular seismite morphologies to earth- quake magnitudes. Clastic injection dykes in lacustrine and fluvial deposits were interpreted to form from earthquakes ranging ...
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Multiple mantle upwellings in the transition zone beneath the northern East African Rift system from relative P wave travel time tomography
... (45 Ma) Ethiopian flood basalts and (due to northward movement of Africa) current Kenyan volcanism, and the northern one has supplied Afar volcanism since about 30 Ma [George et al., 1998; Rogers et al., 2000; Furman et ...
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The seismic signature of Upper‐Mantle Plumes: application to the Northern East African Rift
... The East African Rift region comprising the Afar region, the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER), and eastern and western branches (EB, WB) south of the study area (red ...
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Causes of unrest at silicic calderas in the East African Rift: new constraints from InSAR and soil gas chemistry at Aluto volcano, Ethiopia
... Ethiopian Rift (MER, Figure 1) accommodates extension between the Nubian and Somalian Plates and constitutes the northernmost segment of the EARS [Corti, ...continental rift [Ebinger, 2005] and is ...
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Complete genome sequence of the halophilic bacterium Spirochaeta africana type strain (Z-7692T) from the alkaline Lake Magadi in the East African Rift
... validly named species [2]. The genus name was derived from the latinized Greek words 'speira' meaning 'a coil' and 'chaitê' meaning 'hair', yield- ing the Neo-Latin word hair' [2]. The species epithet was derived from ...
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Hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry of an alkaline volcanic area: the NE Mt Meru slope (East African Rift – Northern Tanzania)
... Phonolitic and nephelenitic lavas, pyroclastics and breccias Nvm Lahars Nzd Phonolitic and nephelenitic lavas, 0 2 Piroclastics and associate lavas/ phonolite 4 pyroclastics and breccias[r] ...
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GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE BITUNGULU LAVA FLOW OF THE JANUARY 17th, 2002 NYIRAGONGO VOLCANO ERUPTION (VIRUNGA, EAST-AFRICAN RIFT)
... Au regard des concentrations en silice trouvées dans les coulées du Shaheru et Munigi [3], l’on remarque que la coulée de Bitungulu se caractérise par des concentrations élé[r] ...
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Imaging lithospheric discontinuities beneath the Northern East African Rift using S to P receiver functions
... the rift are associated with signi fi cant thickness of lower crustal ...ongoing rift fl ank magmatism (Keir et ...Baikal rift, extending to the northwest side of the rift valley (Thybo & ...
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Oblique lithospheric extension : a comparative analysis of the East African rift and some Australian margins
... Multiple-phase deformation in the Tertiary is hypothesized on the basis of the dip analysis of the Rukwa rift zone (Figures 3.16 and 3.17). An early (Red Bed Sequence), nearly E-W (280°) extensional phase would ...
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Earthquake distribution patterns in Africa: their relationship to variations in lithospheric and geological structure, and their rheological implications
... Figure 7: The East African Rift System. The areas of local seismic networks, discussed in the text, are shown by labelled black boxes. Red boxes show the areas of depth/frequency histograms in Figure ...
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Private International Law in Africa : The Past, Present and Future
... of African Unity (now African Union), Professor Allott conceived of the international harmonization of laws in Africa as a key aspect of the “pan- African spirit in ...
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Genetic Evidence for Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks in Madagascar Resulting from Virus Introductions from the East African Mainland rather than Enzootic Maintenance
... In Madagascar, RVFV was first isolated in 1979. At that time, the virus was isolated from mosquitoes in the absence of reports of disease in humans or livestock (12, 16). Eleven years later (1990 to 1991), RVFV ...
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International Parliamentary Institutions: The influence of domestic politics on the capacities of IPI’s
... Seawright and Gerring give two main objectives in selecting cases: Obtaining a representative sample (2008, 296). Second obtaining useful variation on the dimensions of theoretical interest (2008, 296). To have a ...
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The nature of the crust beneath the Afar triple junction: evidence from receiver functions
... crustal structure in the Afar depression, Ethiopia. We have shown that crust beneath this rift ‐ rift ‐ rift triple junction thins from ∼ 26 km in the south to ∼ 16 km in the north. It is bounded by ...
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Vol 22, No 3 (2018)
... biased with false positive because of some cross- reactions with other bacteria. However, the contribution of brucellosis to abortions is less highlighted by molecular techniques 114,115 , although this disease is ...
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