Sascha Brune

TL;DR: It is shown, using high-resolution thermo-mechanical modelling, that hyper-extended crust and margin asymmetry are produced by steady state rift migration and that larger extension velocities may account for southward increasing width and asymmetry of these conjugate magma-poor margins.

TL;DR: Rifted margins feature an initial, slow rift phase and that an abrupt increase of plate divergence introduces a fast rift phase, and it is demonstrated that abrupt plate acceleration during continental rifting is controlled by the nonlinear decay of the resistive rift strength force.

TL;DR: In this article, the formation of three magma-poor margin pairs, Iberia-Newfoundland, the central segment of the South Atlantic Rift, and the South China Sea by integrating observational data into a numerical forward modelling framework.

TL;DR: In this article, a worldwide census of continental rift lengths over the last 200 million years was conducted to estimate tectonic CO2 release rates through time and show that along the extensive Mesozoic and Cenozoic rift systems, rift-related CO2 degassing rates reached more than 300% of present-day values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of oblique extension on the required tectonic force in a three-dimensional setting was investigated using a simple analytic mechanical model and advanced numerical, thermomechanical modeling techniques.