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Extensive field studies on the African and North American plates during this past decade have yielded a wealth of new data and ideas about rift basins and the origin of passive margins. New surface and subsurface basins have been identified; fossils abound in strata that only recently were considered barren; oil exploration is being actively pursued in continental strata of the Richmond-Taylorsville, Sanford and Newark basins, Late Triassic marine strata have been identified in Georges Bank off the coast of Massachusetts, and the roles of wrench tectonics, successor basins and listric normal

Continental drift --- Continentverschuiving --- Crevasses (Geologie) --- Derive des continents --- Rifts (Geology) --- Scheuren (Geologie) --- 551.241 --- Tectosphere. Thickness and structure of Earth's crust layers where folding and faulting occur --- 551.241 Tectosphere. Thickness and structure of Earth's crust layers where folding and faulting occur --- Continental margins --- Geology, Structural --- Margins, Continental --- Submarine topography --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics --- Atlantic Coast (North America) --- Atlantic Coast (Africa) --- Continental drift.