Extensional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust...

understanding of tectonic principles can help geomorphologists to explain erosion patterns and other Earth-surface features. Extensional tectonics is associated...

is one of the three main types of tectonic regime, the others being extensional tectonics and strike-slip tectonics. These match the three types of plate...

Extensional faults are generally planar. If the stress field is oriented with the maximum stress perpendicular to the Earth's surface, extensional faults...

more salt layers are present during extensional tectonics, a characteristic set of structures is formed. Extensional faults propagate up from the middle...

where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression...

subsidence related to movement on faults within a rift zone, an area of extensional tectonics in the continental crust. They are often found within rift valleys...

machines can also be used in reverse for simulating extensional tectonics, such as lithospheric extension, the formation of rifts, normal faulting, boudinage...

Strike-slip tectonics or wrench tectonics is a type of tectonics that is dominated by lateral (horizontal) movements within the Earth's crust (and lithosphere)...

crustal levels) by crustal thickening (see compared also tectonic uplift) and/or extensional tectonics and are subsequently exposed by erosion. Often exhumation...

interactive plate-tectonic reconstructions Outline of plate tectonics – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to plate tectonics List of submarine...

This is a list of articles related to plate tectonics and tectonic plates. Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining...

fault is a gently dipping normal fault associated with large-scale extensional tectonics. Detachment faults often have very large displacements (tens of...

The Shanxi Rift System or Fen–Wei Rift System is a zone of active extensional tectonics that forms the eastern margin of the Ordos Block in northern China...

formed as a result of the pulling apart of the lithosphere due to extensional tectonics. The linear depression may subsequently be further deepened by the...

Fault-block mountains often result from rifting, an indicator of extensional tectonics. These can be small or form extensive rift valley systems, such...

expansion of Charon's interior and the creation of extensional tectonics. The episode of extension may have occurred between 1.7 to 2.5 billion years...

fold and thrust belt. During the Quaternary, thrust tectonics gave way to extensional tectonics, with the development of a zone of normal faulting running...

dyke swarms in North America. Other dyke swarms associated with extensional tectonics and the break-up of Columbia include the Satakunta-Ulvö dyke swarm...

although Stille disagreed, asserting that they were places of extensional tectonics, as exemplified by Iceland. Meanwhile, Argand argued that geosynclines...

orogeny in the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous were characterised by extensional tectonics, rifting, the development of back-arc basins and the emplacement...

certain parts of an area's history, such as movement, deformation, or tectonic activity. When measuring or describing the attitude of an inclined feature...

evolution in extensional tectonic events, a result of tectonic plates stretching apart. When the upper lithospheric crust experiences extensional pressures...

bladed, acicular, lenticular, tabular (tablet shaped)). Thrust tectonics Extensional tectonics Columnar jointing Scientific American (1883). Scientific American...

Frasnian and peaked in the Famennian caused by a mantle plume. Extensional tectonics were also most active during the Famennian. There have been suggestions...

conserved, only line length. The technique was applied to areas of extensional tectonics initially using vertical simple shear. Over the next decade several...

in the Earth's crust. Ground fissures can form naturally, such as from tectonic faulting and earthquakes, or as a consequence of human activity, such as...

builds peaks that rise above the surrounding landscape. Plate tectonics cause the local tectonic plate (in the case of the Anahim hotspot, the North American...

Back-arc basins form behind a volcanic arc and are associated with extensional tectonics and high heat flow, often being home to seafloor spreading centers...

Algoman orogeny (about 2,700 million years ago), a pulling-apart (extensional) tectonics (2,450 to 2,100 million years ago), a second compression during...