Editing Paleogene (section)

=== Red Sea and East Africa ===
Extensional stresses from the subduction zone along the northern Neotethys resulted in rifting between Africa and Arabia, forming the [[Gulf of Aden]] in the late Eocene.<ref name=":20">{{Cite journal |last1=Boone |first1=Samuel C. |last2=Balestrieri |first2=Maria-Laura |last3=Kohn |first3=Barry |date=2021 |title=Tectono-Thermal Evolution of the Red Sea Rift |journal=Frontiers in Earth Science |language=English |volume=9 |page=588 |doi=10.3389/feart.2021.713448 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2021FrEaS...9..588B |issn=2296-6463|hdl=11343/289555 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> To the west, in the early Oligocene, [[Flood basalt|flood basalts]] erupted across [[Ethiopia]], northeast [[Sudan]] and southwest [[Yemen]] as the [[Afar Region|Afar]] mantle plume began to impact the base of the African lithosphere.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":20" /> Rifting across the southern [[Red Sea]] began in the mid Oligocene, and across the central and northern Red Sea regions in the late Oligocene and early Miocene.<ref name=":20" />