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Selective inversion of rift basins in lithospheric-scale analogue experiments
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015,
Switzerland
School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University,
Melbourne, 3800, Australia
Weronika Gorczyk
Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth Sciences, University
of Western Australia, Perth, 6009, Australia
Timothy Chris Schmid
Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, 3012,
Switzerland
Peter Graham Betts
School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University,
Melbourne, 3800, Australia
Alexander Ramsay Cruden
School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University,
Melbourne, 3800, Australia
Eleanor Morton
School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University,
Melbourne, 3800, Australia
Fatemeh Amirpoorsaeed
School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University,
Melbourne, 3800, Australia
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When a continent is pulled apart, it breaks and forms a series of depressions called rift basins. These basins lie above weakened crust that is then subject to intense deformation during subsequent tectonic compression. Our analogue experiments show that when a system of basins is squeezed in a direction perpendicular to the main trend of the basins, some basins rise up to form mountains while others do not.
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