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Gezahegn Yirgu is a researcher affiliated with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including geophysics, artificial intelligence, geology, atmospheric science, and anthropology. Yirgu's body of work comprises 67 publications in the broad field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on the application of geophysical methods and geological analysis.

Their research covers multiple main topics of interest, such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Yirgu has published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Lithos
  • Volcanica

Their recent papers include:

  • "Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa," 2022, Nature
  • "Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard Assessment for Pyroclastic Density Currents From Pumice Cone Eruptions at Aluto Volcano, Ethiopia," 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Event Trees and Epistemic Uncertainty in Long-Term Volcanic Hazard Assessment of Rift Volcanoes: The Example of Aluto (Central Ethiopia)," 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Origin and migration of fluoride in the area of the Aluto Volcanic Complex (Main Ethiopian Rift)," 2022, Applied Geochemistry
  • "Geochronology and glass geochemistry of major Pleistocene eruptions in the Main Ethiopian Rift: Towards a regional tephrostratigraphy," 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews

Throughout their career, Yirgu has frequently collaborated with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Amdemichael Zafu Tadesse
  • Kevin Wong
  • David Ferguson
  • D. J. Morgan
  • Karen Fontijn

Best Publications

  • Timing of the Ethiopian flood basalt event and implications for plume birth and global change

    C. Hofmann;V. Courtillot;G. Féraud;P. Rochette

  • 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

  • Relationships between mafic and peralkaline silicic magmatism in continental rift settings: A petrological, geochemical and isotopic study of the Gedemsa volcano, Central Ethiopian rift

    Angelo Peccerillo;M. Barberio;G. Yirgu;D. Ayalew

  • Flood and shield basalts from Ethiopia: Magmas from the African superswell

    Bruno Kieffer;Nicholas Arndt;Henriette Lapierre;Florence Bastien

  • Evolution of the northern Main Ethiopian rift: birth of a triple junction

    Ellen Wolfenden;Cynthia Ebinger;Gezahegn Yirgu;Alan Deino

  • Isotopic and trace element signatures of Ethiopian flood basalts: evidence for plume–lithosphere interactions

    Raphaël Pik;Catherine Deniel;Christian Coulon;Gezahegn Yirgu

  • Evolution of a volcanic rifted margin: Southern Red Sea, Ethiopia

    Ellen Wolfenden;Cynthia Ebinger;Gezahegn Yirgu;Paul R. Renne

  • The northwestern Ethiopian Plateau flood basalts: Classification and spatial distribution of magma types

    Raphaël Pik;Catherine Deniel;Christian Coulon;Gezahegn Yirgu

  • 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

  • Heads and tails: 30 million years of the Afar plume

    T. Furman;J. Bryce;T. Rooney;B. Hanan

  • Source, genesis and timing of giant ignimbrite deposits associated with Ethiopian continental flood basalts

    Dereje Ayalew;Pierre Barbey;Bernard Marty;Bernard Marty;Laurie Reisberg

  • Magnetostratigraphy and timing of the Oligocene Ethiopian traps

    P. Rochette;E. Tamrat;G. Féraud;R. Pik

  • The Afar Volcanic Province Within The East African Rift System

    G. Yirgu;C. J. Ebinger;P. K. H. Maguire

  • Structure of the Ethiopian lithosphere: Xenolith evidence in the Main Ethiopian Rift

    Tyrone O. Rooney;Tanya Furman;Gezahegn Yirgu;Dereje Ayalew

  • Timing of East African Rift development in southern Ethiopia: Implication for mantle plume activity and evolution of topography

    Raphaël Pik;Bernard Marty;Jean Carignan;Gezahegn Yirgu

  • Lithospheric modification during crustal extension in the Main Ethiopian Rift

    Tyrone Rooney;Tyrone Rooney;Tanya Furman;Ian Bastow;Ian Bastow;Dereje Ayalew

  • Petrogenesis of silicic peralkaline rocks in the Ethiopian rift: Geochemical evidence and volcanological implications

    Angelo Peccerillo;Carmelita Donati;A. P. Santo;A. Orlando

  • Structural controls on fluid pathways in an active rift system: A case study of the Aluto volcanic complex

    William Hutchison;Tamsin A. Mather;David M. Pyle;Juliet Biggs

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

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

  • Recent rift-related volcanism in Afar, Ethiopia

    David J. Ferguson;Talfan D. Barnie;David M. Pyle;Clive Oppenheimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Dereje Ayalew
Dereje Ayalew Addis Ababa University
Raphaël Pik
Raphaël Pik University of Lorraine
David M. Pyle
David M. Pyle University of Oxford
Cynthia J. Ebinger
Cynthia J. Ebinger Tulane University
Tamsin A. Mather
Tamsin A. Mather University of Oxford
Jon D Blundy
Jon D Blundy University of Oxford
Tim J. Wright
Tim J. Wright University of Leeds
Clive Oppenheimer
Clive Oppenheimer University of Cambridge
Juliet Biggs
Juliet Biggs University of Bristol
Bernard Marty
Bernard Marty University of Lorraine

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