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- An aulacogen is a failed arm of a triple junction. Aulacogens are a part of plate tectonics where oceanic and continental crust is continuously being created...
- The Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen (ah-lah-coh-jin) is a failed rift, or failed rift arm (aulacogen), of the triple junction that became the Iapetus Ocean...
- southwest along the Pachelma aulacogen and the Fennoscandian Craton to the northwest along the Volhyn–Central Russian aulacogen. Gorbatschev, Roland; Bogdanova...
- The Amazon Basin is a large sedimentary basin (620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi)) located near the middle and lower course of the Amazon River...
- The New Mexico Aulacogen (ah-lah-coh-jin) is a failed rift, or failed rift arm (aulacogen), that may have formed during the Cambrian and Ordovician Periods...
- Oklahoma. It is the prin****l relief system in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, being the result of a failed continental rift. The mountains are a northwest-southeast...
- New Madrid, Missouri, between Memphis and St. Louis, is related to an aulacogen (failed rift) that formed at the same time as the Gulf of Mexico. This...
- of seafloor spreading, while the third ultimately fails, becoming an aulacogen. Most rifts consist of a series of separate segments that together form...
- large scale in a variety of environments, including p****ive margins, aulacogens, fore-arc basins, foreland basins, intercontinental basins and pull-apart...
- fails to completely split the continental lithosphere (such as in an aulacogen), and failed rifts are characterized by volcanoes that erupt unusual alkali...