A continental rift is a nascent plate boundary where the lithosphere is thinned by tectonic
activity. Some continental rifts undergo extension to the point that they generate a new …

Rifted margins mark a transition from continents to oceans and contain in their architecture a
record of their rift history. Recent investigations of rift architecture have suggested that …

We investigate the feedbacks between surface processes and tectonics in an extensional
setting by coupling a 2‐D geodynamical model with a landscape evolution law. Focusing on …

Recent studies have proposed that the bathymetric fabric of the seafloor formed at mid-
ocean ridges records rapid (23,000 to 100,000 years) fluctuations in ridge magma supply …

Seafloor spreading at slow rates can be accommodated on large‐offset oceanic detachment
faults (ODFs), that exhume lower crustal and mantle rocks in footwall domes termed oceanic …

Erosion and sedimentation constantly rework topography created by tectonics but also
modulate stresses in the underlying crust by redistributing surficial loads. Decades of …

Geodesy shows that∼ 7 mm/yr of dextral shear is accumulating across the Central Walker
Lane in the absence of through‐going strike‐slip faults. To better understand how this shear …

Oceanic detachment faulting is a major mode of seafloor accretion at slow and ultraslow
spreading mid-ocean ridges, and is associated with dramatic changes in seafloor …

We use data from an extensive multibeam bathymetry survey of the Chile Ridge to study
tectonomagmatic processes at the ridge axis. Specifically, we investigate how abyssal hills …

Mid-ocean ridges (MORs) are quintessential sites of tectonic extension,,–, at which
divergence between lithospheric plates shapes abyssal hills that cover about two-thirds of …