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rifting

Description: A geological process in which Earth's crust and lithosphere extend and fracture, producing elongated zones of separation and subsidence.
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Tectonics of the Indonesian region
1979 · Warren Bell Hamilton · USGS professional paper · 2,147
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A-type granites in northeastern China: age and geochemical constraints on their petrogenesis
2002 · Fu-yuan Wu, De-you Sun, et al. · Chemical Geology · 1,348
Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?
1966 · J. TUZO WILSON · Nature · 1,300
Evolution of the Arctic-North Atlantic and the Western Tethys
1988 · Peter A. Ziegler · American Association of Petroleum Geologists eBooks · 1,143
An Outline of the precambrian evolution of the baltic shield
1987 · Gabor Gaál, Roland Gorbatschev · Precambrian Research · 926
Regional tectonic framework, structure and evolution of the western marginal basins of India
1987 · S.K. Biswas · Tectonophysics · 919
Detachment faulting and the evolution of passive continental margins
1986 · G. S. Lister, M. A. Etheridge, et al. · Geology · 902
The breakup history of Gondwana and its impact on pre-Cenozoic floristic provincialism
2001 · Stephen McLoughlin · Australian Journal of Botany · 801
Plate kinematics of the central Atlantic
1986 · Kim D. Klitgord, Hans Schouten · Geological Society of America eBooks · 776
On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup
1999 · V Courtillot, C Jaupart, et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 769
Continental lithosphere of the Arabian Plate: A geologic, petrologic, and geophysical synthesis
2010 · Robert J. Stern, Peter Johnson · Earth-Science Reviews · 712
Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits
2005 · J. M. Franklin, H. L. Gibson, et al. · 709
Thermal and chemical structure of the Iceland plume
1997 · J.G. Fitton, A.D. Saunders, et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 705
Origin and assembly of the Tethyside orogenic collage at the expense of Gondwana Land
1988 · A. M. C. Şengör, Demir Altıner, et al. · Geological Society London Special Publications · 675
The Mesozoic South Atlantic Ocean and evolution of its continental margins
1979 · Philip D. Rabinowitz, John LaBrecque · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 673
Appalachian Orogen in Canada
1979 · Harold Williams · Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences · 632
Gondwanaland dispersion, Asian accretion and evolution of eastern Tethys∗
1996 · I. Metcalfe · Australian Journal of Earth Sciences · 603
Overview of the genesis and emplacement of Mesozoic ophiolites in the Eastern Mediterranean Tethyan region
2002 · Alastair H.F Robertson · Lithos · 592
Episodic Silicic Volcanism in Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula: Chronology of Magmatism Associated with the Break-up of Gondwana
2000 · R. J. PANKHURST, T. R. RILEY, et al. · Journal of Petrology · 564
Relative timing of rifting and volcanism on Earth and its tectonic implications
1978 · A. M. Celal Sengör, Kevin Burke · Geophysical Research Letters · 557
Dynamic processes controlling evolution of rifted basins
2003 · Peter A. Ziegler, Sierd Cloetingh · Earth-Science Reviews · 547
Segmented lateral dyke growth in a rifting event at Bárðarbunga volcanic system, Iceland
2014 · Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Andrew Hooper, et al. · Nature · 543
Zircon U-Pb and oxygen isotope evidence for a large-scale 18O depletion event in igneous rocks during the Neoproterozoic
2004 · Yong-Fei Zheng, Yuan-Bao Wu, et al. · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 541
Isotopic and paleomagnetic constraints on the Mesozoic tectonic evolution of south China
1996 · Stuart A. Gilder, James Gill, et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 532
Tectonic evolution of the northern African margin in Tunisia from paleostress data and sedimentary record
2002 · Samir Bouaziz, Eric Barrier, et al. · Tectonophysics · 525
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