Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting

L Michon, V Famin, X Quidelleur - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Many continental rifts are subjected to volcanism in tandem with rifting, which has raised a
long-standing debate about whether magmatism is the cause or the consequence of plate …

Structural inheritance in the North Atlantic

C Schiffer, AG Doré, GR Foulger, D Franke… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The North Atlantic, extending from the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone to the north
Norway-Greenland-Svalbard margins, is regarded as both a classic case of structural …

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 …

Petrogenesis of Jurassic A-type granites associated with Cu-Mo and W-Sn deposits in the central Nanling region, South China: Relation to mantle upwelling and intra …

H Li, LA Palinkaš, K Watanabe, XS ** - Ore Geology Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The central Nanling region in South China was the site of uplift, extensional deformation,
granite magmatism and hydrothermal activity from 180 to 150 Ma. Information on the age …

From rifting to oceanic spreading in the Gulf of Aden: a synthesis

S Leroy, P Razin, J Autin, F Bache… - … and sedimentary basins …, 2013 - Springer
We present here a synthesis of the evolution of rifted continental margin systems in the Gulf
of Aden. These margins are volcanic to the West of the Gulf of Aden, where they are …

Strain migration during multiphase extension: Observations from the northern North Sea

RE Bell, CAL Jackson, PS Whipp, B Clements - Tectonics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many rifts develop through multiphase extension; it can be difficult, however, to determine
how strain is distributed during reactivation because structural and stratigraphic evidence …

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 …

The impact of multiple extension events, stress rotation and inherited fabrics on normal fault geometries and evolution in the Cenozoic rift basins of Thailand

CK Morley - 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The rift basins of Thailand exhibit remarkable diversity of fault displacement patterns, fault
length–displacement characteristics and mapped fault patterns during late rift, and post-rift …

How do the properties of a pre-existing normal-fault population influence fault development during a subsequent phase of extension?

AA Henza, MO Withjack, RW Schlische - Journal of Structural Geology, 2011 - Elsevier
We use scaled experimental (analog) models to investigate how the properties of a
population of pre-existing normal faults influence fault development during a subsequent …