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the result of continental rifting that failed to continue to the point of break-up.

Typically the transition from rifting to spreading develops at a.

Thermally-induced rifting in the Somali Basin and transform rifting along the Davie Fracture Zone began in the late Permian.

Continental rifting creates new ocean basins.

60 million years ago and 10 million years ago, the Somali Plate began rifting from the African Plate along the East African Rift.

During a period of continental rifting in the Cambrian period, a portion of Patagonia was separated from Gondwana.

and rifting of continents, cratons are generally found in the interiors of tectonic plates; the exceptions occur where geologically recent rifting events.

The rifting that took place between North America and Africa produced multiple failed.

proposed for the mechanism of rifting.

First a thermal anomaly developed in the mantle in the earliest stages of rifting, causing the rise of the asthenosphere.

addition of these magmatic materials usually contributes to the further rifting of the slope, in addition to generating fissure eruptions from those dykes.

The arc crust is under extension or rifting as a result of the sinking of the subducting slab.

The basin was formed due to rifting during the Mesozoic era (250–66 Ma).

This area is considered a present-day example of continental rifting leading to seafloor spreading and producing an oceanic basin.

The Benue Trough was formed by rifting of the central West African basement, beginning at the start of the Cretaceous.

Norwegian Sea began to form 60 million years ago in the early Cenozoic, as rifting led to the eruption of mafic oceanic crust, separating Scandinavia and.

Australia and Antarctica began rifting 85 million years ago and completely separated roughly 45 million years.

Where the lithosphere undergoes horizontal extension at a normal fault or rifting center, the crust will stretch until faulting occurs, either by a system.

stages, crustal rifting followed by lithospheric breakup, and the upwelling between stages of an upper mantle plume.

Prior to rifting, enormous continental.