Continental extension may occur in two main different modes, narrow and wide rifting, which
mainly differ in the width of the deformed region. A third mechanism, the core complex, has …

The formation of major exhumed strike-slip faults represents one of the most important
dynamic processes affecting the evolution of the Earth's lithosphere. Detailed models of the …

The kinematic models and the associated orientation of extensional stress of the East
African Rift System have been subjected to much debate since a long time. In the past …

Since Vening‐Meinesz's realization that the East African Rift represented an extensional, not
compressional, feature and since the widespread acceptance of plate tectonics two decades …

This paper presents the first palaeostress results obtained for the basement of the Baikal rift
system, in southern Siberia (Russia). Large-scale structural analysis and palaeostress …

The western branch of the East African Rift is composed of an arcuate succession of
elongate asymmetric basins, which differ in terms of interaction geometry, fault architecture …

This paper analyzes the importance of preexisting structure for the evolution of the Cenozoic
Malawi rift, which constitutes the southernmost part of the western branch of the East African …

Our field studies emphasizing brittle shear P-and Y-planes along the margins of the Barmer
basin (Rajasthan, India) support its two-phase (NW-SE, followed by NE-SW) extension …

Three different aspects of rift geometry and their impact on hydrocarbon exploration are
examined: rift architecture, fault angle and basin inversion. Rift architecture is controlled by …

Small‐scale modeling was performed to examine the effects of the superposition of two
successive extensional phases from orthogonal to oblique (type 1) and from oblique to …