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Tectonic Comparison of North Atlantic and Middle East Rifting

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THE recent paper by Gass and Gibson1 draws attention to tectonism related to rifting due to differential velocities of adjacent continental segments.

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  1. Department of Applied Geology, University of Strathclyde,

    M. J. RUSSELL

  2. Department of Geology, University of Durham,

    A. BURGESS

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RUSSELL, M., BURGESS, A. Tectonic Comparison of North Atlantic and Middle East Rifting. Nature 222, 1056–1057 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221056a0

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