Sentence examples for rift structure from inspiring English sources
During rifting, the continentward-dipping normal faults evolved in a sequence from south to north, generating the asymmetric rift structure of the Baiyun Sag.
The active fault architecture, fault-kinematic analysis and paleostress reconstruction show that the recent to active fault systems that control the rift structure develop in a pure extensional setting with extension direction orthogonal to the trend of the TRM segment.
However, one fundamental recurring problem in the debate is the extensional fault system and rift structure of the hyperextended rift basins (Baiyun Sag and Liwan Sag) within the distal margin because of the limited amount of seismic data.
These processes are most active in the rift structure where they come together to form the Ural African transcontinental oil and gas belt.
The high and middle Atlas Mountains were formed by the inversion of an earlier Triassic rift structure in Late Cretaceous Early Tertiary time (Stets and Wurster 1982).
The crustal structure of the region shows that the initial formation of the Urals rift structure and its subsequent development occurred on continental crust that was 30 50 km thick (Berlyand 1982; Zoloev et al. 2012; Popov and Rapoport 1996).
Other factors involving architecture of previous rift structures, are proposed as additional mechanisms that accommodated variable shortening magnitudes through inversion.
In the north-western Bonaparte Basin (North West Shelf of Australia) Neogene to Recent flexure-induced extension superimposed obliquely over the Mesozoic rift structures.
Pre-existing rift structures played a major role in controlling the transport and distribution of the Ferrar magmas and the apparent centers of extrusive activity.
This inversion stage is the best expressed in the field and caused dextral strike-slip faulting along the fault systems that now control the major rift structures.
Whereas simple linear rift structures are preferred under uni-directional extension, we find that more complex patterns form in response to bi-directional extension, combining one or several R-R-R triple junctions.
