Extensional Tectonics

İbrahim Çemen, The University of Alabama, USA Elizabeth J. Catlos, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

• List of Contributors  Preface 1 Processes and Perspectives in Extensional Tectonics Elizabeth J. Catlos and Ibrahim ÇemenPart I Large-Scale Extensional Tectonics2 The East African Rift System Tyrone O. Rooney, Ian D. Bastow, Karen Fontijn, Nicholas Mariita, James D. Muirhead, and Derek Keir3 Geological and Geophysical Constraints Guide New Tectonic Reconstruction of the Gulf of Mexico Irina Filina and Erin Beutel4 Introduction to an Active Oblique Rift: Walker Lane–Gulf of California Cathy J. Busby and Keith Putirka5 Extensional Tectonics in Western Anatolia, Turkey: Eastward Continuation of the Aegean Extension Elizabeth J. Catlos, Thomas M. Etzel, and Ibrahim ÇemenPart II Extensional Tectonic Processes6 Oceanic Isostasy: Self-Sustaining Seafloor Spreading and Rift Localization James A. Conder7 Rigidity-Seismicity Relation in the East African Rift System Bernhard Weise and Rezene Mahatsente8 Edge-Driven Convection-Based Models for Evolution of the Mississippi Embayment and Associated Alkaline Magmatism Samuel R. Walker, Ibrahim Çemen, Matthew W. Wielicki, Berry H. Tew, Jr., and Daniel StockliPart III Case Studies of Continental Extensional Tectonics9 Rapid Versus Delayed Linkage and Coalescence of Interacting Rift Tips Folarin Kolawole, Liang Xue, and Zuze Dulanya10 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 Yin11 Büyük Menderes Graben in Western Turkey: An Example of a Rift Basin Developed in Back-Arc Extension Osman Merey, Ibrahim Çemen, and James Granath12 Transfer Zones in Extended Terranes: Examples from Western Anatolia Elizabeth J. Catlos and Ibrahim ÇemenIndex