Modeling suggests that oblique extension facilitates rifting and continental break-up
Modeling suggests that oblique extension facilitates rifting and continental break-up
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Washington, DC: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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In many cases the initial stage of continental break‐up was and is associated with oblique rifting. That includes break‐up in the Southern and Equatorial Atlantic, separation from eastern and western Gondwana as well as many recent rift systems, like Gulf of California, Ethiopia Rift and Dead Sea fault. Using a simple analytic mechanical model and...
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Modeling suggests that oblique extension facilitates rifting and continental break-up
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1033173189
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1033173189
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0148-0227,2169-9313
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2156-2202,2169-9356
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10.1029/2011JB008860
