Processes of Continental Rifting

Dedication to S. Thomas Crough (1947-1982)PrefaceList of AuthorsIntroduction-Processes of Continental RiftingModels of Rifting Mechanism of Graben Formation-the Wedge Subsidence Hypothesis Rifts and Swells: Geophysical Constraints on Causality Mechanisms of Active and Passive Rifting Mechanisms of Uplift Preceding Rifting Convective Thinning of the Lithosphere: A Mechanism for Rifting and Mid-Plate Volcanism on Earth, Venus, and Mars Mechanical Aspects of Continental Rifting Submarine Rifting at Mid-Ocean Ridges Hotspot Tracks and the Early Rifting of the Atlantic Mechanism of Subsidence of Ancient Cratonic Rift Basins Phenomena of Pulsation Tectonics Related to the Breakup of the Eastern North America Continental MarginGeophysical Constraints on Rifting Gravity Study of the Central African Rift System: A Model of Continental Disruption. 1. The Ngaoundere and Abu Gabra Rifts Gravity Study of the Central African Rift System: A Model of Continental Disruption. 2. The Darfur Domal Uplift and Associated Cainozoic Volcanism Baikal Rift: Active or Passive? - Comparison of the Baikal and Kenya Rift Zones Processes of Planetary Rifting as Seen in the Rifting and Break Up of Africa The Distribution and Implications of Heat Flow from the Gregory Rift in Kenya Constraints on Rift Thermal Processes from Heat Flow and Uplift Magnetotelluric Results Opposing Magma Origin of Crustal Conductors in the Rio Grande Rift Crustal Structure of the Northern Mississippi Embayment and a Comparison with Other Continental Rift Zones The Role of Seismic Refraction Data for Studies of the Origin an Evolution of Continental RiftsGeological and Geochemical Constraints on Rifting Crustal Structure of Rifted Continental Margins: Geological Constraints from the Proterozoic Rocks of the Canadian Shield The Role of Rifting in the Tectonic Development of the Midcontinent, U.S.A. Geologic and Geochemical Evidence for the Nature and Development of the Middle Proterozoic (Keweenawan) Midcontinent Rift of North America Timing and Chemistry of Igneous Events Associated with the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen Origin of the Oslo Graben in Relation to the Hercynian-Alleghenian Orogeny and Lithospheric Rifting in the North Atlantic Active Versus Passive Continental Rifting: Evidence from the West African Rift System Tectonic and Geologic Evolution of the Española Basin, Rio Grande Rift: Structure, Rate of Extension, and Relation to the State of Stress in the Western United States The Morton-Black Hypothesis for the Thinning of Continental Crust-Revisited in Western Afar Continental Rift Jumps Surface Deformation in Volcanic Rift Zones The Chemical and Thermal Evolution of Rifts Major Stages of Rifting Evolution in the Earth's HistoryResources Associated with Rifting Continental Rifting and Porphyry-Molybdenum Occurrences in the Oslo Region, Norway Accumulation of Fossil Fuels and Metallic Minerals in Active and Ancient Rift Lakes Geothermal Resources of Rifts: A Comparison of the Rio Grande Rift and the Salton TroughSubject Index