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The Basin and Range province has been the site of extensional orogeny for the past 40 m.y. Its complexities may be caused by the superposition of three tectonic regimes: (a) an Andean-type volcanic arc, which gradually gave way to (b) a spreading ensialic backarc basin and was in turn succeeded by (c) intraplate block faulting and rifting. Total extension may have exceeded 100 percent.
Research supported by NASA grants NGL-32-004-011 and NGR-32-004-062, U.S. Geological Survey grant 14-08-001-G-255, and grants from the New Mexico Energy Resources Board. I am indebted for ideas to numerous associates and present and former students, especially T.J. Bornhorst, P.J. Coney, E.E. Erb, E.G. Deal, the late R.C Rhodes, and E.I. Smith
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Elston, W.E. (1978). Rifting and Volcanism in the New Mexico Segment of the Basin and Range Province, Southwestern USA. In: Neumann, ER., Ramberg, I.B. (eds) Petrology and Geochemistry of Continental Rifts. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9803-2_8
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