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==Examples== * The [[Asunción Rift]] in Eastern Paraguay * The [[Canadian Arctic Rift System]] in northern [[North America]] * The [[East African Rift]] * The [[West and Central African Rift System]] * The [[Red Sea Rift]] * The [[Gulf of California]] * The [[Baikal Rift Zone]], the bottom of [[Lake Baikal]] is the deepest continental rift on the earth. * The [[Gulf of Suez Rift]] * Throughout the [[Basin and Range Province]] in North America * The [[Rio Grande Rift]] in the southwestern US * The rift zone that contains the [[Gulf of Corinth]] in [[Greece]] * The [[Reelfoot Rift]], an ancient buried failed rift underlying the [[New Madrid Seismic Zone]] in the [[Mississippi embayment]] * The [[Rhine Rift]], in southwestern Germany, known as the [[Upper Rhine valley]], part of the [[European Cenozoic Rift System]] * The [[Taupō Volcanic Zone]] in the [[North Island]] of [[New Zealand]] * The [[Oslo Graben]] in [[Norway]] * The [[Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben]] in Ontario and Quebec * The [[Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province]] in [[British Columbia]], [[Yukon]] and [[Alaska]] * The [[West Antarctic Rift System]] in [[Antarctica]] * The [[Midcontinent Rift System]], a late [[Precambrian]] rift in central North America * The [[Central Lowlands|Midland Valley]] in Scotland * The [[Fundy Basin]], a [[Triassic]] rift basin in southeastern Canada * The Cambay, Kachchh, and Narmada rifts<ref>Chouhan, A.K. Structural fabric over the seismically active Kachchh rift basin, India: insight from world gravity model 2012. Environ Earth Sci 79, 316 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-020-09068-2</ref> in northwestern [[Deccan Traps|Deccan volcanic province]] of India<ref>Chouhan, A.K., Choudhury, P. & Pal, S.K. New evidence for a thin crust and magmatic underplating beneath the Cambay rift basin, Western India through modelling of EIGEN-6C4 gravity data. J Earth Syst Sci 129, 64 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-019-1335-y</ref>
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