| 1. | These basins were rift basins formed by the rifting of Rodinia.
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| 2. | It is part of the system of Eastern North America Rift Basins.
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| 3. | Rift basins are elongated, narrow and deep basins.
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| 4. | Buchan metamorphism occurs often in extensional settings, for example at rift basins.
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| 5. | They sit in the Newark Basin, a rift basin located mostly in New Jersey.
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| 6. | Other rift basins with the same orientation formed in the region at the same time.
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| 7. | Thick layers of evaporites are formed due to continuous water evaporation and fill of the rift basin.
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| 8. | Lake Baikal is located in the rift basin and has an age of about 25-30 million years.
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| 9. | Brief periods of rapid rift basin, or with the accumulation of volcanic material around a periodically erupting stratovolcano.
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| 10. | The trough is a linear belt of sedimentary and volcanic rocks which developed in an Early Proterozoic rift basin.
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