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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Continental rifts"”.
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Magma genesis beneath active continental rifts
… Rift System (WARS) are two of the largest continental rift systems on Earth, but the processes governing rift dynamics remain controversial. The large volume and distinct chemistry of Cenozoic rift-related lavas, combined with geophysical evidence for low-density mantle underlying both …
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Joule heating and pore pressure evolution, magmatic intrusions at continental rifts, and microseisms in Yellowstone Lake
The goal of this thesis is to investigate research topics related to geothermal resources. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis and motivates the need to study research topics in relevant geothermal environments, and develop new technologies to economically extract heat from these resources. In Chapter …
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Joule Heating and Pore Pressure Evolution, Magmatic Intrusions at Continental Rifts, and Microseisms in Yellowstone Lake
The goal of this thesis is to investigate research topics related to geothermal resources. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis and motivates the need to study research topics in relevant geothermal environments, and develop new technologies to economically extract heat from these resources. In Chapter …
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Investigating the Kinematics and Dynamics of Strain Localization in the Northern Western Branch of the East African Rift System
Continental rifts are thought to be formed by repeated episodes of magmatism, reactivation of pre-existing structures, or a combination of both. Continental rifts are evidence of a divergent plate boundary, where tectonic plates are breaking apart. The northern Western Branch of the East African …
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CENOZOIC EXTENSION OF THE LAKE TANGANYIKA RIFT, EAST AFRICA: STRUCTURES, TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION
<p>Active continental rifts are ideal sites for understanding the break-up of continents, and long-lived rift lake environments are known as important reservoirs for endemic communities and biodiversity. The sedimentary fill of extensional continental rifts within the East Africa Rift System (EARS) …
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Geology of an Archean Greenstone Belt at Point Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
… belts in the Slave Province are relict continental rifts in which volcanic and sedimentary rocks filled troughs in older sialic crust. However, this study supports a collisional model for the Slave Province, in which oceanic crust and an accretionary wedge were scraped off an eastward …
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Heterogeneous Strain Distribution & the Effects of High Frequency Climate Change on the Evolution of Early-Stage Rift Systems: Case Studies from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi (Nyasa), East Africa
… of the earth’s crust through the formation of continental rift basins is a fundamental aspect of plate-tectonics and the first step that ultimately leads to plate-spreading, new continent formation, and the creation of ocean basins. Within continental rifts, processes associated with …
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Effects of Initial Thermal Structure on the Evolution of Continental Rifting
Continental rifting is a fundamental earth process that displays a wide variety of styles ranging from narrow to wide, symmetric and asymmetric, magmatic and amagmatic. The key conditions and processes that control the evolution of rifts remain enigmatic. Previous research suggests that the initial …
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Volatile metal degassing from volcanoes: source processes, atmospheric transport and deposition
… tectonic settings (arcs, ocean islands, and continental rifts) and outgassing environments (magmatic vents and lava-seawater interactions), and extends to the compositional evolution of volcanic plumes in the atmosphere. Starting within the magmatic system, in Chapter 3 I use gas and melt …
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Isotopic, geochemical, and geochronological constraints on the origin and evolution of Cenozoic volcanism, Baikal Rift Zone, Siberia
… Baikal Rift Zone, one of the world's major continental rifts, is expressed as an approximately 1800 km-long southwest-northeast oriented system situated along a suture between the Archean Siberian craton and younger Paleozoic fold belts. Oligocene to Recent age volcanic rocks and associated …
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STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE RIO GRANDE RIFT: SYNCHRONOUS EXHUMATION OF RIFT FLANKS FROM 20-10 MA, EMBRYONIC CORE COMPLEXES, AND FLUID-ENHANCED QUATERNARY EXTENSION
… is one of the well-exposed and well-studied continental rifts in the world. Interest in the rift is driven not only by pure scientific intrigue, but also by a desire and a necessity to quantify earthquake hazards in New Mexico as well as to assess various water related issues throughout the …
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Denudation processes in a tectonically active rift on different time scales
Continental rifts are excellent regions where the interplay between extension, the build-up of topography, erosion and sedimentation can be evaluated in the context of landscape evolution. Rift basins also constitute important archives that potentially record the evolution and migration of species …