Table of Contents:
  • Crustal doming and the mechanism of continental rifting / M.H.P. Bott
  • Mechanisms of continental riftogenesis / E.V. Artyushkov
  • Thermal regimes, mantle diapirs, and crustal stresses of continental rifts / R.J. Bridwell and C. Potzick
  • Crustal uplift and the propagation of failure zones / H.J. Neugebauer and P. Temme
  • Parameterized rift development and upper mantle anomalies / E. Seidler and W.R. Jacoby
  • The Central European graben system : rifting imitated by clay modelling / S.- E. Elmohandes
  • The continental rift system of the Rhinegraben-- structure, physical properties and dynamical processes / K. Fuchs, K.- P. Bonjer and C. Prodehl
  • The Baikal rift : an example of the intrusion of asthenospheric material into the lithosphere as the cause of disruption of lithospheric plates / Yu A. Zorin
  • Regional stress field and rifting in Western Europe / H. Baumann
  • Rhinegraben : horizontal stylolites indicating stress regimes of earlier stages of rifting / F. Buchner
  • Recent height changes in the central segment of the Rhinegraben and its adjacent shoulders / K. Zippelt and H. Mälzer
  • Geothermal systems in the Upper Rhine graben and northern Black Forest : a chemical and stable isotope study / H. Friedrichsen
  • A model for hydrothermal convection in the Rhine graben and its tectonic implications / B. Hoffers
  • Graben Formation-- the Maltese Islands-- a case history / J.H. Illies
  • Two phases of cretaceous-tertiary magmatism in the Eastern Desert of Egypt : paleomagnetic, chemical and K-Ar evidence / R. Ressetar, A.E.M. Nairn, and J.R. Monrad
  • On the nature of greenstone belts in the Precambrian / A.F. Grachev and V.S. Fedorovsky
  • Aulacogens of ancient platforms : problems of their origin and tectonic development / E.E. Milanovsky
  • Mechanism of graben formation / J.H. Illies.