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Rifted margins – also called “continental margins”, “passive margins” or “Atlantic-type margins” – were defined by Ruppel (1995) as regions “where continental lithosphere meets oceanic lithosphere without an intervening plate boundary”. This rift category can be considered as the successful version of the intracontinental rifts, in the sense that the extensional processes continued on to the ultimate separation of the continental lithosphere and the emplacement of an oceanic spreading system. Rifted margins are then an archive of the entire spectrum of deformation processes leading to complete continental lithosphere separation. They bound all continental masses in the Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans and thus record the separation of the supercontinent Gondwana. Chapter 2 is dedicated to the full description of their architecture and evolution.

Further reading.– The above descriptions are abbreviated and often simplified. If interested in reading and learning further, the reader is referred to the following list of publications and references.

 – General: (Wilson 1966; McKenzie 1978; Brun and Choukroune 1983; Keen 1985; Wernicke 1985; Lister et al. 1986; Buck 1988, 1991; Dewey 1988; Ruppel 1995; Rey et al. 2001; Foulger 2002; Corti et al. 2003; Axen 2004; Cacace and Scheck-Wenderoth 2016).

 – East African Rift: (Chorowicz 2005; Ebinger 2005; Corti 2009; Rooney 2017, 2019, 2020a, 2020b, 2020c).

 – Basin and Range Province: (Wernicke 1981, 1985; Davis and Lister 1988, 1989; Axen et al. 1993; Sonder and Jones 1999).

 – Congo Basin: (Crosby et al. 2010).