Evolution and characteristics of continental rifting: Analog modeling-inspired view and comparison with examples from the East African Rift System

G Corti - Tectonophysics, 2012‏ - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Structural inheritance in amagmatic rift basins: Manifestations and mechanisms for how pre-existing structures influence rift-related faults

A Samsu, S Micklethwaite, JN Williams… - Earth-Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Reactivation of intrabasement structures during rifting: A case study from offshore southern Norway

TB Phillips, CAL Jackson, RE Bell, OB Duffy… - Journal of Structural …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Pre-existing structures within crystalline basement may exert a significant influence over the
evolution of rifts. However, the exact manner in which these structures reactivate and thus …

Fault growth and interactions in a multiphase rift fault network: Horda Platform, Norwegian North Sea

OB Duffy, RE Bell, CAL Jackson, RL Gawthorpe… - Journal of Structural …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Physical models predict that multiphase rifts that experience a change in extension direction
between stretching phases will typically develop non-colinear normal fault sets …

How do normal faults grow?

A Rotevatn, CAL Jackson, ABM Tvedt, RE Bell… - Journal of Structural …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Normal faults grow via synchronous increase in displacement and length ('propagating fault
model', also known as the 'isolated fault model'), or by rapid length establishment and …

Normal fault array evolution above a reactivated rift fabric; a subsurface example from the northern Horda Platform, Norwegian North Sea

PS Whipp, CAL Jackson, RL Gawthorpe, T Dreyer… - Basin …, 2014‏ - earthdoc.org
The impact of a pre‐existing rift fabric on normal fault array evolution during a subsequent
phase of lithospheric extension is investigated using 2‐D and 3‐D seismic reflection, and …

Tectonic inheritance and continental rift architecture: Numerical and analogue models of the East African Rift system

G Corti, J van Wijk, S Cloetingh, CK Morley - Tectonics, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Brittle shear tectonics in a narrow continental rift: asymmetric nonvolcanic Barmer Basin (Rajasthan, India)

S Dasgupta, S Mukherjee - The Journal of Geology, 2017‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
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 …

Near N–S paleo-extension in the western Deccan region, India: Does it link strike-slip tectonics with India–Seychelles rifting?

AA Misra, G Bhattacharya, S Mukherjee… - International Journal of …, 2014‏ - Springer
This is the first detailed report and analyses of deformation from the W part of the Deccan
large igneous province (DLIP), Maharashtra, India. This deformation, related to the India …

The role of structural inheritance in oblique rifting: Insights from analogue models and application to the Gulf of Aden

J Autin, N Bellahsen, S Leroy, L Husson, MO Beslier… - Tectonophysics, 2013‏ - Elsevier
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 …