Rifting in the Gulf of Mexico helped the southern end of the basin to subside, which allowed marine water to advance northward.

Rifting typically causes uplift of its margins, or ' rift shoulders ', and the covering sediments were removed by erosion as the Red Sea widened, allowing us to examine the basement geology of this region.

* The Shiva Crater: Implications for Deccan Volcanism, India-seychelles Rifting, Dinosaur Extinction, and Petroleum Entrapment at the Kt Boundary by Chatterjee, Sankar ; Guven, Necip ; Yoshinobu, Aaaron ; and Donofrio, Richard ; Paper No. 60-8, 2003 Seattle Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America ( November 2 – 5, 2003 ).

Rifting of a continent begins with hot-spot volcanism at rift valleys.

Rifting did not start everywhere simultaneously.

Rifting still continues today ; primarily in the north, where active volcanoes are more plentiful.

Rifting occurred within and around Britain and Ireland, prior to the breakup of the super-continent in the Jurassic period.

However, in regions where the sylvatic habitat and its fauna are thinned by economic exploitation and human habitation, such as in newly deforested areas, piassava palm culture areas, and some parts of the Amazon region, a human transmission cycle may develop as the insects search for new food sources.

At a point where the pathway thinned out nearly to a point, and was cut across by a transverse crevasse, the wall became low enough to be scaled by the ladder.

This style of chonmage is slightly different, in that the pate is no longer shaved, although the hair may be thinned in this region to allow the topknot to sit more neatly.

It is typically thinned or cut to allow the rigid pieces to bend along the line of the hinge.

Acrylic artist paints may be thinned with water and used as washes in the manner of watercolor paints, but the washes are not re-hydratable once dry.

Water soluble paints contain an emulsifier which allows them to be thinned with water ( rather than with paint thinner ), and allows very fast drying times ( 1 – 3 days ) when compared with traditional oils ( 1 – 3 weeks ).

This allows the colors to be thinned out to an even, semi-transparent consistency using a water wash. Water-soluble pastels are made in a restricted range of hues in strong colors.

On serving, it is accompanied by sweet soya sauce ( medium sweetness, slightly thinned with boiled water ), sliced fresh chilli, sliced raw shallots ( eschalot ), quartered green tomatoes, and steamed rice, and is sometimes garnished with fried shallots.

Tahini-based sauces are common in Middle Eastern restaurants as a side dish or as a garnish, usually including lemon juice, salt and garlic, and thinned with water.

A second type was made with a paste prepared from honey locust pods, mixed with croton oil, and thinned with water.

Acrylic artist paints can be thinned with water and used as washes in the manner of watercolor paints, although the washes are fast and permanent once dry.

Water miscible oil paint ( also called " water soluble " or " water mixable ") is a modern variety of oil paint engineered to be thinned and cleaned up with water, thus making it possible to avoid using chemicals such as turpentine, whose fumes may be harmful if inhaled ( making it necessary to take precautions, such as using the solvent in a ventilated environment ).

However, their handling is slightly different: when thinned to a considerably liquid phase, water miscible oil paint tends to feel and behave like watercolor ( although, unlike watercolor, and to a greater extent than traditional oil, it may lose adhesion to the ground or support if over-thinned ); by contrast, when used as a short paste without water for heavy impasto work, it tends to drag, developing a consistency somewhat " gummier " or tackier than the more buttery one characteristic of oils.

These paints can be mixed, thinned, as well as cleaned with water, or a series of mediums and varnishes are available to enhance the experience.

Although this type of paint may be thinned with water, artists may prefer to use specially prepared mediums for improved texture and control.

It generally has a glue-like consistency, but can be thinned with water to the degree that fits a particular artist's style and desired result.

Tomato pickled herring: this pickle in a thick sauce: 4 Tablespoons tomato paste, 3 Tablespoons sugar, and 3 Tablespoons vinegar are mixed and thinned with about 4 Tablespoons water, flavoured with black pepper and bay leaf.

The Sacramento River and its drainage basin were originally abundant in multiple avian and aquatic species, but modern-day development has thinned populations of many species, especially riverine.

What was left of the German assault troops ( Bavarians and Alpen Korps ) was further thinned out by less than sixty French machine gunners, led by a lieutenant Kleber Dupuy, who had emerged from the fort's ruins and taken positions on its superstructure.

The rarebit, a dish typically made with rich cheese thinned with ale, served melted on toast with cayenne and mustard mixed in, was used despite its innocuousness — it was not the sort of dish one would likely associate with having nightmares.

Once the air density thinned to the point that helicopter flight was impractical, the vehicle would continue its ascent on pure rocket power, with the rotor acting as a giant turbopump.

At any given area density, ceramic armour is also best when mounted more vertically, as maintaining the same area density requires the armour be thinned as it is sloped and the ceramic fractures earlier because of its reduced normal thickness.

At the end of its flowering, since it flowers most freely on ripened young wood and has little summer and autumn interest, it is thinned and pruned similarly to Forsythia by partly heading back and a few thick old stems removed at the ground.

He became friends with Louis, and after being introduced by Clement Greenberg to Helen Frankenthaler and seeing her new paintings at her studio in New York City in 1953 he and Louis adopted her “ soak-stain ” technique of allowing thinned paint to soak into unprimed canvases.

These bulbs are very easy to set out and grow into mature bulbs the following year, but they have the reputation of producing a less durable bulb than onions grown directly from seed and thinned.

The thickened oil and prepared resin are then cooked together and thinned with turpentine ( away from open flame ) into a brushable solution.

Some FFS surgeons now offer a compression technique in appropriate cases where the wall of bone is first thinned and weakened, and then compressed into place.

The Dutch had thinned out their formations to place more men at the front, a concept Gustav adapted by converting his formations into rectangles only six ranks deep ( as opposed to ten or more ).

Having seen Jackson Pollock's 1951 paintings of thinned black oil paint stained into raw canvas, Helen Frankenthaler began to produce stain paintings in varied oil colors on raw canvas in 1952.

As the oceans evaporated and the atmosphere thinned, the planet devolved into partial barbarism.

He simplified his compositions, and he also excessively thinned his colors with varnish, which made his stylized figures disappear into the background.

Scalpelling is performed to quickly achieve a large-gauge piercing, when scar tissue is preventing further stretching, if tissue has thinned to the point where further stretching could cause it to break, or to combine two closely placed piercings into one hole.

This technique is also often used to alter the placement of a large piercing, combine two existing piercings into one larger one, or achieve a higher-gauge piercing when scar tissue is preventing stretching, or when tissue has thinned too much to make stretching too risky.

Though fads vary a bit from year to year, in the stock horse breeds, the mane is usually shortened and thinned, often " banded ," in that the mane is divided into many small segments and small rubber bands are placed around each segment in order to make the overall mane lay flat and neat.

" Community wildfire protection plans designate areas adjacent to communities that should be thinned so that crown fires will not directly burn into communities.