Open AccessRoadmap to continental rupture: Is obliquity the route to success?
Author(s) -
C. J. Ebinger,
Jolante van Wijk
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609
H-Index - 215
eISSN - 1943-2682
pISSN - 0091-7613
DOI - 10.1130/focus032014.1
Subject(s) - geology , seismology
Continental rift systems progress to plate rupture and seafloor spreading, or fail. The separation of Africa and South America is no exception: ruptured Mesozoic rift systems define their irregular coastlines, with basins overlying thinned crust of failed rift sectors. Heine and Brune (2014, p. 211
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