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Atalay Ayele is affiliated with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily within geophysics, geology, and earth-surface processes, with emphases on earthquake and tectonic studies as well as high-pressure geophysics and materials.

The scientist's recent publications cover multiple aspects of tectonics, seismic imaging, and geological processes, including:

  • Volcanic activity and hazard in the East African Rift Zone, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Tectonics of the Asela-Langano Margin, Main Ethiopian Rift (East Africa), 2020, Tectonics
  • Quantitative Constraints on Faulting and Fault Slip Rates in the Northern Main Ethiopian Rift, 2020, Tectonics
  • Body-Wave Tomographic Imaging of the Turkana Depression: Implications for Rift Development and Plume-Lithosphere Interactions, 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Evidence for Active Rhyolitic dike Intrusion in the Northern Main Ethiopian Rift from the 2015 Fentale Seismic Swarm, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research include Derek Keir, C. J. Ebinger, I. D. Bastow, Carolina Pagli, and Birhanu A. Kibret.

The scientist has published in several notable venues, indicating active engagement with the earth sciences community. Key publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Tectonics

Atalay Ayele's work primarily relates to these main topics:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Geological and geophysical studies
  • Geological formations and processes

Their research subfields further elaborate on these interests by focusing on:

  • Geophysics
  • Geology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Artificial Intelligence applied in earth sciences
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law related to geosciences

Best Publications

  • Magma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode

    Tim J. Wright;Tim J. Wright;Cindy Ebinger;Cindy Ebinger;Juliet Biggs;Atalay Ayele

  • Geophysical constraints on the dynamics of spreading centres from rifting episodes on land

    Tim J. Wright;Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Carolina Pagli;Manahloh Belachew

  • Strain accommodation by magmatism and faulting as rifting proceeds to breakup: Seismicity of the northern Ethiopian rift

    Derek Keir;C. J. Ebinger;G. W. Stuart;E. Daly

  • The nature of the crust beneath the Afar triple junction: Evidence from receiver functions

    James O.S. Hammond;J.-M. Kendall;G.W. Stuart;D. Keir

  • Length and Timescales of Rift Faulting and Magma Intrusion: The Afar Rifting Cycle from 2005 to Present

    Cynthia Ebinger;Atalay Ayele;Derek Keir;Julie Rowland

  • Evidence for focused magmatic accretion at segment centers from lateral dike injections captured beneath the Red Sea rift in Afar

    Derek Keir;Derek Keir;Ian J. Hamling;Atalay Ayele;Eric Calais

  • September 2005 mega‐dike emplacement in the Manda‐Harraro nascent oceanic rift (Afar depression)

    Atalay Ayele;Atalay Ayele;Derek Keir;Cynthia Ebinger;Tim J. Wright

  • Capturing magma intrusion and faulting processes during continental rupture: seismicity of the Dabbahu (Afar) rift

    C.J. Ebinger;C.J. Ebinger;D. Keir;D. Keir;A. Ayele;E. Calais

  • Shallow axial magma chamber at the slow-spreading Erta Ale Ridge

    Carolina Pagli;Tim J. Wright;Cynthia J. Ebinger;Sang-Ho Yun

  • The volcano–seismic crisis in Afar, Ethiopia, starting September 2005

    Atalay Ayele;Eric Jacques;Mohammed Kassim;Tesfaye Kidane

  • Comparison of dike intrusions in an incipient seafloor-spreading segment in Afar, Ethiopia: Seismicity perspectives

    Manahloh Belachew;Manahloh Belachew;C. Ebinger;D. Coté;D. Keir

  • Volcanism in the Afar Rift sustained by decompression melting with minimal plume influence

    Catherine A. Rychert;James O. S. Hammond;Nicholas Harmon;J. Michael Kendall

  • Dike-fault interaction during the 2004 Dallol intrusion at the northern edge of the Erta Ale Ridge (Afar, Ethiopia)

    Adriano Nobile;Adriano Nobile;Carolina Pagli;Derek Keir;Tim J. Wright

  • Mantle upwellings, melt migration and the rifting of Africa: insights from seismic anisotropy

    J. M. Kendall;S. Pilidou;D. Keir;I. D. Bastow

  • Geodetic observations of the ongoing Dabbahu rifting episode: new dyke intrusions in 2006 and 2007

    Ian J. Hamling;Atalay Ayele;Laura Bennati;Eric Calais

  • Crustal Structure of Active Deformation Zones in Africa: Implications for Global Crustal Processes

    Cynthia J Ebinger;Derek Keir;Derek Keir;Ian D Bastow;Kathryn A Whaler

  • Local earthquake magnitude scale and seismicity rate for the Ethiopian rift

    Derek Keir;Graham W. Stuart;Andrew Jackson;Atalay Ayele

  • Mantle upwelling and initiation of rift segmentation beneath the Afar Depression

    J. O. S. Hammond;J. O. S. Hammond;J. M. Kendall;G. W. Stuart;C. J. Ebinger

  • Crustal tomographic imaging of a transitional continental rift: The Ethiopian rift

    E. Daly;E. Daly;D. Keir;C. J. Ebinger;G. W. Stuart

  • Seismicity during lateral dike propagation: Insights from new data in the recent Manda Hararo-Dabbahu rifting episode (Afar, Ethiopia)

    Raphael Grandin;Eric Jacques;Alexandre Nercessian;Atalay Ayele

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Keir
Derek Keir University of Florence
Cynthia J. Ebinger
Cynthia J. Ebinger Tulane University
James O.S. Hammond
James O.S. Hammond Birkbeck, University of London
Graham Stuart
Graham Stuart University of Leeds
Tim J. Wright
Tim J. Wright University of Leeds
J-M Kendall
J-M Kendall University of Oxford
Ian D. Bastow
Ian D. Bastow Imperial College London
Eric Calais
Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure
Jonathan M. Bull
Jonathan M. Bull University of Southampton
Juliet Biggs
Juliet Biggs University of Bristol

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