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Definition of Rifting
1. rift [v] - See also: rift
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rifting
Literary usage of Rifting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters to the Peers of Scotland by James Maitland Lauderdale (1794)
"... even of fome of the leaders of the party, at the moment that he was rifting the
... rifting ..."
2. Tapping the Earths Natural Heat by Wendell A. Duffield, John H. Sass, Michael L. Sorey (1995)
"The country literally grows— by this plate motion (rifting)—in a roughly east-west
direction at an average rate of about 12 centimeters per year. ..."
3. The Ore Deposits of the United States by James Furman Kemp (1893)
"Illustration of rifting in granite at Cape Ann, Mass. After RS Tarr. rocks and
porphyries ... (See RS Tarr, " On rifting in Cape Ann Granites," Amer. Jour. ..."
4. The Ore Deposits of the United States by James Furman Kemp (1893)
"Illustration of rifting in granite at Cape Ann, Mass. After P.. ... They afford
a cleavage, called rifting, but are not well understood. ..."
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