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  • Carbon dioxide and helium data support lateral advection of carbon-rich cratonic mantle below the East African Rift System, which concentrates deep carbon and causes active carbonatite magmatism near the craton edge.

    • James D. Muirhead
    • Tobias P. Fischer
    • Cynthia J. Ebinger
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 582, P: 67-72

  • Transfer of CO2 from Earth’s interior to the atmosphere happens largely by volcanic degassing. Measurements of CO2 emissions from faults in the East African Rift system imply that tectonic degassing is also important for deep carbon release.

    • Hyunwoo Lee
    • James D. Muirhead
    • Gladys Kianji
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 9, P: 145-149

  • Thermal models predict that spreading velocity at mid-ocean rifts should influence the geometry of the underlying magma chamber. InSAR data from the slow-spreading Ethiopian Rift identify a shallow, elongated magma chamber—a feature usually associated with fast-spreading rifts—beneath the Erta Ale segment, implying that spreading velocity may not be so important after all.

    • Carolina Pagli
    • Tim J. Wright
    • Atalay Ayele
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 5, P: 284-288

  • Continental breakup and volcanism in Afar, Africa, has been linked to mantle plume activity. Seismic imaging of the mantle beneath Afar, however, identifies an increase in seismic velocities at shallow depths that is consistent with decompression melting and magmatism in the absence of strong plume activity today.

    • Catherine A. Rychert
    • James O. S. Hammond
    • Graham Stuart
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 5, P: 406-409

  • Continental rifts initiate and develop through repeated episodes of faulting and magmatism, yet strain partitioning between faulting and magmatism during discrete rifting episodes remains poorly documented. It is shown that most of the strain during the July–August 2007 seismic crisis in the Natron rift, Tanzania, was released aseismically. This event provides evidence for strain accommodation by magma intrusion, in addition to slip along normal faults, during the initial stages of continental rifting, and before significant crustal thinning.

    • Eric Calais
    • Nicolas d’Oreye
    • Christelle Wauthier
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 456, P: 783-787

  • The authors here present geodetic and seismic data for a complete eruptive cycle (2005-2018) for Sierra Negra volcano, Galapagos Island. The data shows the largest pre-eruptive inflation (6.5 m) and rates of seismicity ever observed before a basaltic eruption and provides a rare illustration of caldera resurgence mechanisms.

    • Andrew F. Bell
    • Peter C. La Femina
    • Michael J. Stock
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-9

  • Focusing on two ill-characterized subtypes of medulloblastoma (group 3 and group 4), this study identifies prevalent genomic structural variants that are restricted to these two subtypes and independently bring together coding regions of GFI1 family proto-oncogenes with active enhancer elements, leading to their mutually exclusive oncogenic activation.

    • Paul A. Northcott
    • Catherine Lee
    • Stefan M. Pfister
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 511, P: 428-434

  • Medulloblastoma is the most common brain tumour in children; using whole-genome sequencing of tumour samples the authors show that the clinically challenging Group 3 and 4 tumours can be tetraploid, and reveal the expression of the first medulloblastoma fusion genes identified.

    • David T. W. Jones
    • Natalie Jäger
    • Peter Lichter
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 488, P: 100-105

  • Stefan Pfister and the ICGC PedBrain Tumor Project report whole-genome sequencing of 96 pilocytic astrocytomas. They identify recurrent activating mutations in FGFR1 and PTPN11 and novel NTRK2 fusion genes.

    • David T W Jones
    • Barbara Hutter
    • Stefan M Pfister
    Research
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 45, P: 927-932