Crustal rheology controls the style of rifting and ultimately the architecture of rifted margins.
Here we review the formation of three magma-poor margin pairs, Iberia-Newfoundland, the …

The evolution and characteristics of narrow continental rifting are illustrated in this paper
through a review of recent lithospheric-scale analog models of continental extension …

Inherited rheological structures in the lithosphere are expected to have large impact on the
architecture of continental rifts. The Turkana depression in the East African Rift connects the …

Movements of tectonic plates often induce oblique deformation at divergent plate
boundaries. This is in striking contrast with traditional conceptual models of rifting and rifted …

In the context of rift basin formation, structural inheritance describes the influence of pre-
existing structures on new rift-related structures, including faults. Pre-existing structures in …

Rifting involves complex normal faulting that is controlled by extension direction, reactivation
of prerift structures, sedimentation, and dyke dynamics. The relative impact of these factors …

The geometry and kinematics of rifts are strongly controlled by pre-existing structures that
may be present in both the crust and the mantle lithosphere. In the Gulf of Aden, the Tertiary …

Continental rifting is responsible for the generation of major sedimentary basins, both during
rift inception and during the formation of rifted continental margins. Geophysical and field …

Integrated geological-geophysical methods have been used to depict the geometric
characteristics and kinematic evolution of the Shunbei 5 (SB5) and adjacent Shunbei1 (SB1) …

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 …