| 1/ What is the Wilson Cycle?
2/ What is Passive Rifting?
3/ What is Active Rifting?
4/ How can we explain basaltic magmas in continental rift?
5/ If you drill through a continental margin what is the rock succession you would expect to see?
6/ What is a rift basin?
7/ What is the main economic significance of rift basins?
8/ At what stage of the Wilson cycle rift basins become inactif?
9/ What kind of structure accommodates extension of the brittle upper crust?
10/ What is a roll-over anticline?
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11/ In physical experiment what material is used as analogue of the brittle upper crust?
12/ A drop in sea level during extension produces onlap or pinch-out structures?
13/ What is an inverted basin?
14/ Why inverted basins are economically important?
15/ Slow extensional rates produces broadly distributed zones of thinning, why ?
16/ Sedimentary basins usually show a subsidence history in two stages. How can we explain them?
17/ What is the time scale of thermal subsidence.
18/ What are the two end-member models for extension at lithospheric scale.
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