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Intracontinental rifts develop in the interior of a continental plate, far from any plate boundary, thus with no apparent direct tectonic connection to the regional stress fields produced by plate tectonics. However, continental plates can deform internally in response to far-off changes in stress conditions, such as changes in the plate boundary configuration (e.g. changes in the dip/velocity/direction of the subduction slab). Intracontinental rifts are classified according to their geometry (narrow vs. wide) or their structural setting (aulacogens and intracratonic rifts).