The formation of intracontinental rift orogens (IMAGE)
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Intracontinental rift orogens develop in three stages from thinning of the lithospheric mantle in the suture zone through upwelling and diapirism of the asthenospheric mantle to metamorphism and magmatism of the thickened lower crust under the regime of continental active rifting.
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