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- of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called a graben, or more commonly a half-graben with normal...
- remains active to the present day. Today, the Rhine Rift Valley forms a downfaulted trough through which the river Rhine flows. The Upper Rhine Plain was...
- traditional Chinese: 華北平原; pinyin: Huáběi Píngyuán) is a large-scale downfaulted rift basin formed in the late Paleogene and Neogene and then modified...
- parallel to the George VI Sound, and the Fossil Bluff Formation is downfaulted to the east of this fault against the LeMay Group. Sand ****s are found...
- These blocks were later uplifted (forming horsts such as the Harz), or downfaulted (trough faults or graben such as the Upper Rhine Valley) or thrust over...
- Chron. An upper bounding age for LD 350-1 is provided by an adjacent, downfaulted younger block that contains the 2.665±0.016 Ma Lee Adoyta Tuff. [...]...
- began reverting to forest. The Connecticut River Valley is an ancient downfaulted graben or rift valley that formed during the Mesozoic Era when rifting...
- or 2.24%, are water. Westfield is situated at the western edge of the downfaulted Connecticut River Valley where the Westfield River emerges from the Berkshire...
- horst of quartzite forming the Lickey Ridge, with the younger sequences downfaulted from it to both east and west. On Beacon Hill stood one of the country-wide...
- its extension, normal faulting took place, and the ore deposits were downfaulted and buried under alluvial sediment. The Carlin–type deposits represent...