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Rift basins - Origin, history, and distributionRifts are elongate depressions overlying places where the lithosphere has ruptured in extension. Where filled with sediment they may contain exploitable quantities of oil and gas. Because rits form in a variety of tectonic settings, it is helpful to define the particular tectonic environment in which a specific rift or set of rifts has developed. A useful approach has been to relate that environment to the Wilson Cycle of the opening and the closing of oceans. This appreciation of tectonic setting can help in better understanding of the depositional, structural and thermal history of individual rift systems. The global distribution of rifts can also be related to tectonic environment. For example, rifts associated with continental rupture at a temporary still-stand of a continent over the mantle convective system (rifts like those active in East Africa today) can be distinguished from those associated with continental collision (rifts like the Cenozoic rifts of China).
Document ID
19850053973
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Burke, K. C.
(Lunar and Planetary Institute Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1985
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
85A36124
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASW-3389
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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