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This section lists the major tectonic structures and basin types encountered in rifts and rifted margins. Basic definitions and schematic diagrams are provided to clarify the main terminology used in the following chapters of this book and to avoid any misunderstanding.

Note that this section does not aim to describe the details of all structural features that can be encountered in extensional settings. The descriptions below cover a biased and non-exhaustive selection of structures that are considered to be representative of rifts and rifted margins. For a proper primer in structural geology, the reader is referred to contributions specifically dedicated to this theme (see the Further reading sections, and, for example, Fossen 2010).