Rifts are areas in the Earth's lithosphere where plates are moving apart and being infilled with basaltic magmas from the asthenosphere.
Rift valleys appear at divergent tectonic plate boundaries. It is thought to be a process of inner earth heat
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Rift basins are depressions within the crust and lithosphere that are associated with extensional tectonics. The presence of active normal faulting itself, creates the accomodation space for...
A rift forms between two tectonic plates that are pulling apart.