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This multi-author book has been prepared by an international group of geoscientists that have been active in rift research since the late 1960s. In 1984, an informal, grass-roots study group was initiated to compare individual research results and to explore in greater depth the apparent differences and similarities in the interpretations from various rift systems. The group became known as the CREST working group, an acronym of Continental Rifts: Evolution, Structure and Tectonics, which not surprisingly became the title of this book.Continental Rifts: Evolution, Structure, Tectonics presents an overview of the present state of understanding and knowledge of the processes of continental rifting from a multidisciplinary, lithospheric scale perspective. The chapters have been structured on each rift system in approximately the same synoptic sequence, so as to facilitate comparisons of rifts by the reader. The book complements its predecessors by presenting a more unified picture. It succeeds in presenting the status of a representative majority of the continental rift systems that have been at the forefront of recent research. For students and experienced researchers alike, this book will be of significant value in assessing the current state of knowledge and in serving as a framework for future research
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Developments in Geotectonics 25
CONTINENTAL RIFTS: EVOLUTION, STRUCTURE, TECTONICS Edited by
K.H. OLSEN
GCS International 1029 187th Place, SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036, U.S.A.
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Publication No. 264 of the International Lithosphere Program
1995 ELSEVIER Amsterdam - Lausanne - New York - Oxford - Shannon -Tokyo
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ISBN: 0 444 89566 3 (hardbound) ISBN: 0 444 89567 1 (paperback) 91995 Elsevier Science B.V.