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Meaning of "rifting"
rifting (verb) - a geological term referring to the process of the earth's crust breaking or splitting apart, often leading to the formation of rift valleys or plate tectonics movements
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- present participle of rift
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Continental rifting creates new ocean basins.
The land is continually reshaped through eruption and rifting.
The rifting stage was most probably amagmatic.
Much of the volcanic activity occurred before the rifting.
Rifting in this area is still going on today.
Only after initial rifting does any mantle melting occur.
Rifting along the waves cherishing only tonight.
Magmatic activity and rifting may also be independent events.
Rifting is the future of entertainment.
The ocean basins are created by the rifting apart of continents.
Hyperextended rifting is the name for this phenomenon.
Oceanisation is the process of formation of an ocean after continental rifting.
Initial rifting between the two continents is marked by the c.
Reactive diapirism is the result of regional extension caused by rifting.
Ongoing rifting has caused recent earthquakes and volcanism.
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A primary control on the geodynamics of rifting is the thermal regime.
His rifting leaves.
The upwelling of asthenosphere is not involved in the actual rifting process.
The reasons for the rifting process are not well known.
Rifting to form sea.
This suggests that these diabases are connected to that rifting event.
These sectors were not thinned by rifting and are characterized by normal continental lithosphere.
It has been suggested that these granites formed associated with rifting.
Volcanism has been attributed to the rifting and also a mantle hotspot.
This suggests that stress fields alternate during the rifting.
It accumulates strain which come from rifting episodes and larger earthquakes.
Such an evolution is consistent with the fust stage of an active rifting.
How this affects the postulated rifting does not seem to have been addressed.
Such compositions are usually taken as evidence of intraplate rifting and doming.
Craters or depressions formed by tectonic rifting often provide such topological depressions.
That was released from deep within the earth as a result of crustal rifting.
These faults represent the final stage of rifting on the continental margin.
Rift graben lakes are formed from crustal stretching also known as rifting.
The rifting stopped before the land could become two separate continents.
This layer may represent basaltic intrusion or underplating during a rifting event.
You will shorten your lives by rifting with those you should not.
The rifting process may ultimately lead to the birth of entirely new continents.
Low temperatures may have been exaggerated during the early stages of continental rifting.
Continental collision makes fewer and larger continents while rifting makes more and smaller continents.
Rifting earth of Ethiopia reveals clues of continets breaking.
The eruption of continental flood basalts is often associated with continental rifting and breakup.
The rifting evolution of the Malvinas basin was seismically characterized.
Hotspot tracks and the early rifting of the Atlantic.
It represents a continental fragment that was separated from Zealandia by rifting.
Recently InSAR has been used to study rifting processes in Ethiopia.
Intrusion of the basic magma was associated with Keeweenawan continental rifting.
The era witnessed the gradual rifting of the supercontinent Pangaea.
Rifting in the southern part of Iceland is focused in two main parallel rift zones.
These might be associated with upper Proterozoic rifting processes.
The first was a passive rifting event that occurred in the Triassic period.
