Danakil Alps

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The Danakil Alps (Danakil Alps) are a highland region in Ethiopia and Eritrea with peaks over 1000 meters high and a width between 40 and 70 kilometers.

The highland region lies east of the Danakil Depression and separates it from the southern Red Sea . A rift facing the Red Sea forms the eastern limit of the mountains. Geologically, this highland is called Horst and is also known as Danakil Horst or Danakil Block. Precambrian basement rocks lie beneath the region , and Precambrian and Mesozoic rocks are exposed in the coastal area of ​​Eritrea . The basement rock of the Alps has been covered with flood basalt since the Oligocene epoch . The Afar Rift opened about 20 million years ago. This caused the Alps to migrate east / northeast from the Ethiopian plateau to which they were previously attached.

There are numerous volcanic areas in the Danakil Alps, such as the Nabro Volcanic Mountains. The largest of the Nabro volcanoes are Mallahle, Nabro and Dubbi. The area extends northwest to the Red Sea and ends with the Kod Ali volcanic cone off the coast.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/afar/new-afar/geology-afar/structure-tech-pages/dan-alisa-tech.html Retrieved January 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Final desiccation of the Afar Rift, Ethiopia http://science.sciencemag.org/content/172/3982/468/%7Cdoi=10.1126/science.172.3982.468 Retrieved January 17, 2019

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