rifted

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English

Definitions

verb

To form a rift; to split open.
To cleave; to rive; to split.“to rift an oak”

verb

(obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.

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Synonyms

breach rupture break severance falling out flawed carboniferous cenozoic overthrust palaeozoic dextral biogeographic crustal anorthosite tensional colluvial

Associated

laurasia craton crust mya jurassic drifted margins cretaceous antarctica oceanic margin continent

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