A continental rift is a nascent plate boundary where the lithosphere is thinned by tectonic
activity. Some continental rifts undergo extension to the point that they generate a new …

Scaling in fracture systems has become an active field of research in the last 25 years
motivated by practical applications in hazardous waste disposal, hydrocarbon reservoir …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

We argue that by fracturing rock, not by raising it relative to base level, tectonics plays its
most important role in causing rapid incision of valleys and rapid erosion of hillslopes …

We use teleseismic waveform inversion, along with depth phase analysis, to constrain the
centroid depths and source parameters of large African earthquakes. The majority of seismic …

The contrast in geologic structure observed on opposing flanks of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge,
where it is offset by the Atlantis transform fault, illustrates how significant differences in …

We use clay models to simulate how fault population systematics vary as a function of rift
obliquity. Rift obliquity is related to the acute angle, α, between the rift trend and the …

Although fault and magmatic processes have achieved plate spreading at mid-ocean ridges
throughout Earth's history, discrete rifting episodes have rarely been observed. This paper …

We present a preliminary account of the near-field surface strain associated with a major
magmatic rifting episode at a nascent slow spreading ridge in the Afar depression. Between …

Treatise on Geophysics, Second Edition, Eleven Volume Set is a comprehensive and in-
depth study of the physics of the Earth beyond what any geophysics text has provided …