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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...
- large scale in a variety of environments, including p****ive margins, aulacogens, fore-arc basins, foreland basins, intercontinental basins and pull-apart...
- part of a divergent plate boundary. The failed arms are called aulacogens, and the aulacogens of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge eventually became many of the large...
- 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...
- 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 Lancaster Aulacogen is a geological structure underlying Lancaster Sound and Prince Regent Inlet in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada. It...
- 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...
- Highly viscous, ductile, and mechanically weak region of Earth's mantle Aulacogen – Failed arm of a triple junction, an inactive rift zone Back-arc basin –...
- 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...
- fails to completely split the continental lithosphere (such as in an aulacogen), and failed rifts are characterized by volcanoes that erupt unusual alkali...