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continental rift

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continental rift
A long, narrow fissure in the Earth marking a zone of the lithosphere that has become thinner due to extensional forces associated with plate tectonics. Continental rifts are thousands of kilometers in length and hundreds of kilometers in width, and they are associated with normal faults and with grabens.


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5 wt %) trachyandesite that occurs in continental rift, collisional and arc settings (Rogers and Setterfield 1994).
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