Continental and Oceanic Rifts

G. Pdlmason

Penerbit : American Geophysical Union Washington, D.C. Geological Society of America Boulder, Colorado

Tahun : 1982

The great fault systems of the continents have been known for more than a century but it is only in recent years that the rifts in the ocean floor have been reasonably well mapped. The years following the second world war saw a spate of ocean exploration with many new instru ments. Previously, there had been the sugges tion of Wiseman and Sewell (1937) giving the results of the John Murray expedition that the rift along the Carlsberg Ridge in the Indian Ocean might be connected to the rifts of East Africa via the Gulf of Aden. This connexion turned out to be fundamental and today most people accept that the continental and oceanic rifts are closely interconnected and that continental rifts can evolve into ocean rifts and eventually into ocean basins.

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