Since 2005, a 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift has been forming. In the scorching deserts of East Africa, ...

Oil and gas production in Alaska has historically been limited to the northern and southern margins of the state, primarily in the North Slope and Cook Inlet, but recent drilling, seismic, and ...

Many regard it as an extended rift basin where two continental plates are actively moving apart, while others see it as a fully developed ocean with a mid-ocean ridge and seafloor spreading.

New results from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, a continental rift zone where the first stage of ocean basin formation is taking place, show how the environmental conditions and sediment input into the ...

Structure Several nonmarine rift basins formed in interior Alaska (Fig. 1) in response to crustal extension (Nenana basin) and strike slip movement along curved, regional faults (Yukon Flats). The ...