Continental Rifts
Subtitle: Evolution, Structure, Tectonics (Developments in Geotectonics)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: November 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780444895677
First sentence: Early studies defined rifts as major elongate tectonic depressions bounded by normal faults, with no implication for the mode of development or for the mechanism of formation of these depressions (e.g., Gregory, 1896, 1921; see also Elie de Beaumont, 1827, 1830, 1844, 1847; Suess, 1880, 1891; de Martonne, 1897; de Lapparent, 1898; Uhlig, 1907, 1912; Obst, 1913; Verweke, 1913, Krenkel, 1922; Willis, 1928, 1936).