title: Final desiccation of the afar rift, ethiopia.
abstract: Stable and radioactive isotope studies of ancient corals and mollusks from a fossil atoll in the Afar Rift indicate that final separation of the Afar Depression from the Red Sea occurred not earlier than 32,000 years ago. Desiccation followed within a few thousand years. The events recorded in the Afar Rift illustrate the processes occurring in the incipient stages leading to the formation of an oceanic body by rifting of a continental block.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bonatti
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Emiliani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ostlund
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rydell