Part of an active oblique rift system in the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula
Aden-Sheba Ridge
The Aden Ridge is a part of an active oblique rift system located in the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula to the north. The rift system marks the divergent boundary between the Somali and Arabian tectonic plates, extending from the Owen Transform Fault in the Arabian Sea to the Afar Triple Junction or Afar Plume beneath the Gulf of Tadjoura in Djibouti.[1]
The Gulf of Aden is divided east to west into three distinct regions by large-scale discontinuities, the Socotra, Alula Fartak, and Shukra-El Shiek transform faults.[2] Located in the central region, bounded by the Alula Fartak fault and Shukra-El Shiek fault, is the Aden spreading ridge. The Aden Ridge connects to the Sheba Ridge in the eastern region and to the Tadjoura Ridge in the western region.[2] Due to oblique nature of the Aden Ridge, it is highly segmented. Along the ridge there are seven transform faults that offset it to the north.
^Leroy, S; Lucazeau, D'Acremont; Watremez, Autin; Rouzo, Khanbari (2010). "Contrasted styles of rifting in the eastern Gulf of Aden: A combined wide-angle, multichannel seismic, and heat flow survey" (PDF). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 11 (7): Q07004. Bibcode:2010GGG....11.7004L. doi:10.1029/2009gc002963. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
^ abManighetti; Tapponnier, Courtillot; Gruszow, Gillot (1997). "Propagation of rifting along the Arabia-Somalia plate boundary: The Gulfs of Aden and Tadjoura". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 102 (B2): 2681–2710. Bibcode:1997JGR...102.2681M. doi:10.1029/96jb01185.
The AdenRidge is a part of an active oblique rift system located in the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula to the north. The rift...
spreading and producing an oceanic basin. Here, the Red Sea Rift meets the AdenRidge and the East African Rift. The latter extends a total of 6,500 kilometers...
east. To the west, it narrows into the Gulf of Tadjoura in Djibouti. The AdenRidge lies along the middle of the Gulf and is causing it to widen about 15mm...
Dead Sea Transform fault system, and ends at an intersection with the AdenRidge and the East African Rift, forming the Afar Triple Junction in the Afar...
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Highlanders. Forces under his command reoccupied the Crater district of Aden which had been taken over by local police mutineers in what became known...
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