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22: 193: 127:(IUGS) included 'The Danakil Rift depression and its volcanism' in its assemblage of 100 'geological heritage sites' around the world in a listing published in October 2022. The organisation defines an IUGS Geological Heritage Site as 'a key place with geological elements and/or processes of international scientific relevance, used as a reference, and/or with a substantial contribution to the development of geological sciences through history.' 33: 665:
Kotopoulou, Electra; Huertas, Antonio Delgado; GarcĂ­a-Ruiz, Juan Manuel; Dominguez-Vera, Jose M.; Lopez-Garcia, Jose Maria; Guerra-Tschuschke, Isabel; Rull, Fernando (6 December 2018).
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Perez, Eduardo; Chebude, Yonas (April 2017). "Chemical Analysis of Gaet'ale, a Hypersaline Pond in Danakil Depression (Ethiopia): New Record for the Most Saline Water Body on Earth".
639:"They Didn't Find Life in a Hopeless Place - In some of the world's wettest, most acidic bodies of superheated water, even the most extreme forms of archaea couldn't survive" 212: 95:, inundation by the sea, the rising and falling of the ground have all played their part in the formation of this depression. Sedimentary rocks such as 123:
In respect of it demonstrating 'the ongoing birth of an ocean witnessed through tectonics and volcanism in an extreme evaporite arid environment', the
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Geological Atlas of Africa: With Notes on Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Economic Geology, Geohazards, Geosites and Geoscientific Education of Each Country
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microorganisms, were not found to exist in the very hot, acidic and salty conditions present in some parts of the Danakil Depression.
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is the westernmost and older of the two volcanoes at the southern end of the Danakil Depression. The other active volcano,
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The Danakil Depression is the hottest place on Earth in terms of year-round average temperatures. It is also one of the
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Beyene, Alebachew & Abdelsalam, Mohamed G. (2005). "Tectonics of the Afar Depression: A review and synthesis".
1689: 237:, is one of several crater lakes of lava bubbling from the Earth's mantle. Additionally, the area contains the 714: 386: 1790: 1858: 592: 238: 1863: 144: 564: 168: 638: 440: 1181: 1800: 1512: 1389: 880: 245:. These wet environments at the Danakil Depression are being investigated to help understand how 173: 667:"A poly-extreme hydrothermal system controlled by iron: the case of Dallol at the Afar Triangle" 505: 1719: 1671: 1472: 1462: 1417: 1399: 1138: 1060: 215:
at 100 metres (330 ft) below sea level, and without rain for most of the year. Here, the
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is a plain approximately 200 by 50 km (124 by 31 mi), lying in the north of the
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and has a complex geological history. It has developed as a result of
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that has resulted from the divergence of three tectonic plates in the
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to propose that this area is where the human species first evolved.
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in Danakil Depression offer a research opportunity for studying
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located over a tectonic hot spring in the Danakil Depression (
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Among the geological points of interest to tourists are the
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moving apart, causing rifting and volcanic activity.
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Index


Erta Ale

Mount Ayalu
Afar Triangle
Ethiopia
Eritrea
depression
Horn of Africa
triple junction
tectonic plates
Africa
Asia
Erosion
sandstone
limestone
unconformably
basalt
lava flows
International Union of Geological Sciences
Depression
Afar Region
border with Eritrea
Ethiopian Plateau
Danakil Alps
humanity
Donald Johanson
Australopithecus afarensis
Lucy
hominins

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