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This section begins with the definition of the active and passive rifting categories, as these are regularly mentioned in the literature and are the primary designations of extensional rift settings. However, because these two categories are very loosely defined and present-day data coverage is limited, it is difficult to fit all rifts in this classification scheme. For this reason, we prefer a classification that is based on the general tectonic setting of the rifts, as proposed by Ruppel (1995), which will be described in section 2.2.