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Continental tectonics: extensional

Posted inEditors' Highlights

The Many Magmatic Modifications to the African Continent

by J. Geissman 9 January 201810 January 2018

How the very slow moving African Continent, with a lithosphere of quite varied age elements and thickness, has responded to ongoing asthenospheric modification.

Pannonian-Basin-Miocene-extension-greater-than-previously-thought
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Unraveling the History of Central Europe's Pannonian Basin

by Terri Cook 12 August 2016

A multidisciplinary model linking the sedimentary and tectonic histories of this structurally complex basin suggests that large amounts of extension occurred there between 20 and 9 million years ago.

Cliffs of 1.1-billion-year-old volcanic rocks from the Midcontinent rift in Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota tower above the brilliant blue waters of Lake Superior.
Posted inFeatures

New Insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift

by S. Stein, C. Stein, J. Kley, R. Keller, M. Merino, E. Wolin, D. Wiens, M. E. Wysession, G. Al-Equabi, W. Shen, A. Frederiksen, F. Darbyshire, D. Jurdy, Gregory Waite, W. Rose, E. Vye, T. Rooney, R. Moucha and E. Brown 4 August 201628 September 2021

The Midcontinent Rift has characteristics of a large igneous province, causing geologists to rethink some long-standing assumptions about how this giant feature formed.

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The Backwards Earthquakes

by E. E. A. Ross 15 December 201529 May 2016

Earthquakes in Idaho's panhandle are usually caused by the Earth's crust pulling apart. So why were earthquakes on 24 April pushing the crust together?

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