A type of basin formed by the moving apart of two pieces of a continent is called a rift basin.
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Off the northwestern Alaskan coast there is a Jurassic rift basin, the "'Hannah Trough " '.
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The lower sequences were deposited in a continental rift basin and the upper sequence was deposited in a stable passive margin.
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In many rift basins around the world, the vast majority of discovered hydrocarbons are found in conventional traps associated with horsts.
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During the Permian the geologic forces that would later split Pangaea continued the process of rift basin formation in northern Rhode Island.
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In the state were some rich oilfields, including Unity oilfield and most of Muglad rift basin and contains an estimated of oil.
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It likely accumulated as turbidites and submarine slumps within a submarine fan or outer slope environment within a deep rift basin submerged by marine waters.
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The "'Bransfield Basin "'is a back-arc rift basin located off the Northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The current mountain range formed as a result of East Greenland Rift Basin oil deposits are estimated to be one of the largest in the world.
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Fossils have been found from the Rukwa Rift Basin of southwestern Tanzania, and were described in 2010 in the journal " Nature ".
