Extensional Tectonics

Preface ix

1 Processes and Perspectives in Extensional Tectonics 1
Elizabeth J. Catlos and Ibrahim Çemen

Part I Large-Scale Extensional Tectonics

2 The East African Rift System 23
Tyrone O. Rooney, Ian D. Bastow, Karen Fontijn, Nicholas Mariita, James D. Muirhead, and Derek Keir

3 Geological and Geophysical Constraints Guide New Tectonic Reconstruction of the Gulf of Mexico 55
Irina Filina and Erin Beutel

4 Introduction to an Active Oblique Rift: Walker Lane-Gulf of California 77
Cathy J. Busby and Keith Putirka

5 Extensional Tectonics in Western Anatolia, Turkey: Eastward Continuation of the Aegean Extension 95
Elizabeth J. Catlos, Thomas M. Etzel, and Ibrahim Çemen

Part II Extensional Tectonic Processes

6 Oceanic Isostasy: Self-Sustaining Seafloor Spreading and Rift Localization 155
James A. Conder

7 Rigidity-Seismicity Relation in the East African Rift System 77
Bernhard Weise and Rezene Mahatsente

8 Edge-Driven Convection-Based Models for Evolution of the Mississippi Embayment and Associated Alkaline Magmatism 199
Samuel R. Walker, Ibrahim C¿emen, Matthew W. Wielicki, Berry H. Tew, Jr., and Daniel Stockli

Part III Case Studies of Continental Extensional Tectonics

9 Rapid Versus Delayed Linkage and Coalescence of Interacting Rift Tips 231
Folarin Kolawole, Liang Xue, and Zuze Dulanya

10 Root Problem of Mid-Tertiary Cordilleran Detachment Faults: Deciphering the Evolution of the Whipple Mountains Detachment Shear Zone in Southeastern California 259
Valeria Jaramillo, Elizabeth J. Catlos, Elizabeth A. Bell, Axel K. Schmitt, and An Yin

11 Büyük Menderes Graben in Western Turkey: An Example of a Rift Basin Developed in Back-Arc Extension 289
Osman Merey, Ibrahim Çemen, and James Granath

12 Transfer Zones in Extended Terranes: Examples from Western Anatolia 317
Elizabeth J. Catlos and Ibrahim Çemen

Index 351