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About the Afar Rift Consortium

The Afar Rift Consortium comprises scientists from Leeds, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford and links with work by scientists in the U.S., Ethiopia, France and New Zealand.

The Consortium brings together the expertise to tackle this extensive, multidisciplinary study on how the Earth's crust splits apart to form a new ocean.

Our work has immediate implications for hazard assessment in the region and we will work closely with Ethiopian scientists and policy makers in the region.

The consortium has strong links with research planned in a parallel NSF grant, which is investigating deformation during rifting using GPS, seismicity and geodynamical modelling. In addition, the consortium is working with the British Geological Survey who are conducting geological mapping of the Afar region.

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British Geological Survey in Afar

James Hammond, after installing GPS receiver on flanks of Gabho. Photograph by Tim Wright, January 2006.