Volcanic and nonvolcanic rifted margins of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden: Crustal cooling and margin evolution in Yemen

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Jun 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997gecoa..61.2511m&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 61, Issue 12, pp.2511-2527

Computer Science

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New apatite fission track (AFT) data from the southern Red Sea volcanic and the Gulf of Aden nonvolcanic margins provide important constraints on the timing of crustal cooling relative to periods of volcanism and lithosphere extension. The AFT data define several regions of extension immediately adjacent to the Red Sea margin with AFT ages < 25 Ma and track-length distributions consistent with rapid cooling. Elevated Precambrian basement highs on the rift shoulder have AFT ages >> 100 Ma and track-length distributions indicative of a complex pre-rift history. An intervening area along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden margins, and inland along the Balhaf graben (Jurassic rift), has AFT ages of 25-100 Ma. and track-length distributions indicative of rapid cooling. Elevated Precambrian basement highs are juxtaposed against topographically lower extended coastal terranes with sharp contrasts in AFT ages and track-length distributions, pointing to possible reactivation in the Tertiary of lineaments of Precambrian and Jurassic age. Integration of field observations with AFT data and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data indicates that, on the Red Sea volcanic margin, surface uplift was initiated immediately prior to volcanism and that cooling was synchronous with widespread extension and an apparent hiatus in voluminous volcanic activity.

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