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half-graben with normal faulting and rift-flank uplifts mainly on one side. Where rifts remain above sea level they form a rift valley, which may be filled...22 KB (2,531 words) - 20:22, 28 August 2024
New Madrid seismic zone (redirect from Reelfoot Rift)Valley seismic zone. The faults responsible for the NMSZ are embedded in a subsurface geological feature known as the Reelfoot Rift, which likely formed during...32 KB (3,787 words) - 02:05, 3 November 2024
rifts will eventually become oceanic rifts. Other rift valleys are the result of bends or discontinuities in horizontally-moving (strike-slip) faults...12 KB (1,359 words) - 04:48, 11 September 2024
A rift lake is a lake formed as a result of subsidence related to movement on faults within a rift zone, an area of extensional tectonics in the continental...3 KB (255 words) - 13:59, 29 July 2023
internal fault segments, and the concentration of magmatic activity towards the rifts. Today, the narrow rift segments of the East African Rift system form...28 KB (3,171 words) - 00:48, 5 November 2024
as it is considered an imprecise merging of separate though related rift and fault systems. This valley extends southward from Western Asia into the eastern...11 KB (1,210 words) - 22:16, 5 November 2024
The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state...41 KB (4,290 words) - 18:29, 1 November 2024
Dead Sea Transform (redirect from Dead Sea Rift)The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, also sometimes referred to as the Dead Sea Rift, is a series of faults that run for about 1,000 km from the...34 KB (4,102 words) - 21:17, 4 November 2024
that the fault zone is a rift system that is an incipient oceanic spreading center, the northern extension of the Red Sea Rift. In 1033, the rift valley...17 KB (1,402 words) - 01:05, 6 November 2024
major fault or the hinge alternates along the rift. The alternation between these half-grabens occurs along transfer faults, which trend across the rift to...25 KB (2,829 words) - 03:29, 14 September 2024- Afar Triple Junction (redirect from Afar rift)dome resulted in a massive faulting area of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in the Afar region. The East African Rift is an active rift between the Nubian and Somali...14 KB (1,894 words) - 23:34, 3 November 2024
to more S-N trend and the faults become mainly oblique normal in sense as the zone intersects with the Taupō Rift. This fault zone accommodates up to 1 cm/year...22 KB (2,563 words) - 08:06, 27 October 2024- The rift system extends more than 1,000 km (620 mi) along the Saint Lawrence valley from the Ottawa – Montreal area. Within the system, fault reactivation...3 KB (350 words) - 18:35, 24 June 2022
South of Ruapehu the rift, and its normal faulting, terminates with east to west faulting in the Taupō Rift termination faults. At the scale of the tectonic...19 KB (1,562 words) - 01:53, 26 August 2024
the rift system. The largest fault it contains is the Morskiy Fault; however, another fault, the Primorsky is becoming the primary fault in the rift. The...15 KB (1,658 words) - 22:09, 19 June 2024
The rift system is continuous with the Weihe Basin to the southwest, which became active during the Paleogene. Rupture of the major normal faults that...17 KB (2,103 words) - 17:05, 29 July 2024
features, including grabens, half-grabens, basins and faults. Development of the Canadian Arctic Rift System was accompanied by two plate tectonic episodes...55 KB (6,296 words) - 20:52, 28 July 2024
Teton Fault. Fault scarps in Motosu, Japan, created by the 1891 Mino–Owari earthquake. The fault scarps bounding the East African Rift Valley. The fault scarps...10 KB (1,034 words) - 01:25, 5 November 2024
Half-graben (category Rifts and grabens)bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries, unlike a full graben where a depressed block of land is bordered by parallel faults. A rift is a region...11 KB (1,193 words) - 16:54, 26 March 2024
present-day rifting at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The northeastern U.S. has many known faults, but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults probably remain...18 KB (2,264 words) - 00:36, 14 October 2024
- earthquake we include two very different sets of phenomena, the one the rock-rift or fault, which is the disturbance itself, the other the spreading or interfering
- planet there is nothing gradual about it; it is a Great Acceleration and a rift in the Earth system. The problem is rising exponentially, while worsening
- steep fault-scarps and block mountains on both sides Rift valleys are long, elongated and have uniform width. They are formed between two faults. They