Abstract The Norwegian-Greenland Sea (NGS) in the NE Atlantic comprises diverse tectonic
regimes and structural features including sub-oceanic basins of different ages …

Abstract The East Africa-Arabia topographic swell is an anomalously high-elevation region
of~ 4000 km long (from southern Ethiopia to Jordan) and~ 1500 km wide (from Egypt to …

Hot plumes rising from Earth's deep mantle are thought to cause uplift, rifting and large
igneous province (LIP) emplacement. LIP volcanism in continents often spans tens of Ma …

Although many different mechanisms for subduction initiation have been proposed, only few
of them are viable in terms of consistency with observations and reproducibility in numerical …

Controversy between advocates of 'active'(plume-activated) versus 'passive'(driven by
external tectonic stresses) modes of continental rifting and break-up has persisted for …

Continental rifting precedes the breakup of continents, leading to the formation of passive
margins and oceanic lithosphere. Although rifting dynamics is classically described in terms …

Plumes are domains where hotter material rises through Earth´ s mantle, heating also the
moving lithospheric plates that may experience thinning or even continental breakup. In …

Traditionally, the emplacement of the Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) is considered to have
caused continental break-up. However, this does not always seem to be the case, as …

Several of Earth's intra‐plate volcanic provinces lie on or adjacent to continental lithosphere.
Although many are believed to mark the surface expression of mantle plumes, our limited …

Abstract The Red Sea is an ideal location for studying rifting processes, offering a young and
active intra‐continental rift at the final stages of breakup. We explore the 3D lithospheric …