Movie showing the evolution of oblique rifting in analogue models (from Corti, 2008, Nature Geosc). Obliquity in this model is 30° (angle between the normal to the rift axis and the direction of extension). Note the two-phase rift evolution with a first phase of boundary fault activity and basin subsidence, followed by activation of en-echelon arranged internal faults obliquely cutting the rift floor.
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