Extensional tectonics rifting and continental extension tectonic processes: A global view. Volume 2 /Пространственная тектоника, рифтогенез и тектонические процессы растяжения континентов: глобальный взгляд. Том 2

1 Processes and Perspectives in Extensional Tectonics

Elizabeth J. Catlos and Ibrahim Qemen

Part I Large-Scale Extensional Tectonics

2 The East African Rift System

Tyrone O. Rooney, Ian D. Bastow, Karen Fontijn, Nicholas Mariita, James D. Muirhead, and Derek Keir

3 Geological and Geophysical Constraints Guide New Tectonic Reconstruction of the Gulf of Mexico

Irina Filina and Erin Beutel

4 Introduction to an Active Oblique Rift: Walker Lane-Gulf of California

Cathy J. Busby and Keith Putirka

5 Extensional Tectonics in Western Anatolia, Turkey: Eastward Continuation of the Aegean Extension

Elizabeth J. Catlos, Thomas M. Etzel, and Ib rahim Qemen

Part II Extensional Tectonic Processes

6 Oceanic Isostasy: Self-Sustaining Seafloor Spreading and Rift Localization

James A. Conder

7 Rigidity-Seismicity Relation in the East African Rift System

Bernhard Weise and Rezene Mahatsente

8 Edge-Driven Convection-Based Models for Evolution of the Mississippi Embayment

and Associated Alkaline Magmatism

Samuel R. Walker, Ib rahim Qemen, Matthew W. Wielicki, Berry H. Tew, Jr., and Daniel Stockli

Part III Case Studies of Continental Extensional Tectonics

9 Rapid Versus Delayed Linkage and Coalescence of Interacting Rift Tips

Folarin Kolawole, Liang Xue, and Zuze Dulanya

10 Root Problem of Mid-Tertiary Cordilleran Detachment Faults: Deciphering the Evolution

of the Whipple Mountains Detachment Shear Zone in Southeastern California

Valeria Jaramillo, Elizabeth J. Catlos, Elizabeth A. Bell, Axel K. Schmitt, and An Yin

11 Buyuk Menderes Graben in Western Turkey: An Example of a Rift Basin Developed

in Back-Arc Extension

Osman Merey, Ib rahim Qemen, and James Granath

12 Transfer Zones in Extended Terranes: Examples from Western Anatolia

Elizabeth J. Catlos and Ib rahim Qemen