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    A propagating rift is a seafloor feature associated with spreading centers at mid-ocean ridges and back-arc basins. They are more commonly observed on...
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    volcanism and a propagating rift origin from the Eastern volcanic zone (EVZ) is proposed with the Western volcanic zone (WVZ) being the receding rift.: 53  The...
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    Lamont seamount chain Mid-Atlantic Ridge Overlapping spreading centers Propagating rift Ring of Fire General citations for named fracture zones are at page...
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  • tectonic spreading Saint Lawrence rift system – Seismically active zone paralleling the Saint Lawrence River Propagating rift – Seafloor feature associated...
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    pre-existing structures, which either guided the propagating faults or impeded their growth. The rift system is now inactive apart from minor adjustments...
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    Eldfell on Heimaey. It is the southern tip of the EVZ propagating rift in what is an off rift region called the South Iceland Volcanic Zone (SIVZ), and...
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    vents. In Atwater's research on propagating rifts near the Galapagos Islands, she discovered that propagating rifts were created when spreading centers...
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    volcanic centre, south Iceland: early evolution of a central volcano in a propagating rift?, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 127, pp. 55–71...
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    Aden. It is believed that the volcanism is related to an eastward-propagating rift produced before the most recent stage of sea-floor spreading in the...
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  • two separate volcanic systems. The southern tip of the EVZ propagating rift is an off rift region called the South Iceland volcanic zone (SIVZ), that...
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  • Vonarskarð and Hágöngur, belong to the same volcanic system. The southern propagating rift region of the EVZ with more tendency yo explosive eruption characteristics...
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    there are several spreading centers south of 27° S and 3 northward propagating rift to the north of 27° S. The axis further north is a graben reaching...
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    steep western wall but a series of steps on its eastern side and is a propagating rift. A ridge on its western side, reaching less than 2,000 m (6,600 ft)...
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    geological feature known as the Reelfoot Rift, which likely formed during the Cambrian Period. The Reelfoot Rift was first described by Ervin and McGinnis...
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    Valles Marineris (redirect from Mars rift)
    and was subsequently widened by erosion. Near the eastern flanks of the rift, there appear to be channels that may have been formed by water or carbon...
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  • plume), is identified in one study as at least five sequences of propagating rifts, probably triggered by mantle flowing away from the mantle thermal...
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    spreading centers – A feature of spreading centers at mid-ocean ridges Propagating rift – A seafloor feature associated with spreading centers at mid-ocean...
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    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 Maraş triple...
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    volcanic centre, south Iceland: early evolution of a central volcano in a propagating rift?". Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 127 (1–2): 55–71...
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    Fernando; Höskuldsson, Ármann; Benediktsdóttir, Ásdís (19 March 2010). "Propagating rift model for the V-shaped ridges south of Iceland" (PDF). Geochemistry...
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    timing of this break-up. Rifting propagated from south to north along Triassic–Early Jurassic lineaments, but intra-continental rifts also began to develop...
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    tip starts to propagate along the axis of the syncline. Such structures are also known as tip-line folds. Eventually, the propagating thrust tip may...
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  • "The Galapagos Rift at 86°W: Morphological wave forms; Evidence for a propagating rift". Journal of Geophysical Research. 84 (B11): 6011–6018. doi:10.1029/jb084ib11p06011...
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    The European Cenozoic Rift System (ECRIS) is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long system of rifts formed in the foreland of the Alps as the lithosphere responded...
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    Westview Press. Griffith, William E. (1963). Albania and the Sino-Soviet Rift. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press. Halliday, Jon, ed. (1986). The Artful Albanian:...
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    is complex. The gulf is underlain by the Gulf of California Rift Zone, a series of rift basins and transform fault segments from the northern end of...
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    reactions from the general public. Romualdez was instrumental in the deepening rift between the Marcos and Duterte families. Under Romualdez's watch, the House...
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    segments as the ridge is flanked on its eastern side by two southward propagating back-arc basins, the northern Lau Ridge (called historically the South...
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    as the Elan Bank may have their placements due to ridge jumps at propagating rifts during the process of sea floor spreading. Kerguelen Plateau(126-0 Ma)...
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    east is the southern section of the Fonualei Rift and Spreading Center (FRSC) which is southward propagating but to the north the interactions of the FRSC...
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