Editing Tectonics (section)

===Extensional tectonics===
{{Main article|Extensional tectonics}}
Extensional tectonics is associated with the stretching and thinning of the crust or the [[lithosphere]]. This type of tectonics is found at divergent plate boundaries, in continental [[rift]]s, during and after a period of [[continental collision]] caused by the lateral spreading of the thickened crust formed, at releasing bends in [[Fault (geology)#Strike-slip faults|strike-slip faults]], in [[back-arc basin]]s, and on the continental end of [[passive margin]] sequences where a [[Décollement|detachment layer]] is present.<ref>{{citation|url=http://bmeyer2.free.fr/pdf/2002-TerraNova.pdf|last1=Armijo|first1=R.|last2=Meyer|first2=B.|last3=Navarro|first3=S.|last4=King|first4=G.|last5=Barka|first5=A.|author-link5=Aykut Barka|year=2002|title=Asymmetric slip partitioning in the Sea of Marmara pull-apart: a clue to propagation processes of the North Anatolian Fault?|journal=Terra Nova|publisher=[[Wiley-Blackwell]]|volume=14|issue=2|pages=80–86|doi=10.1046/j.1365-3121.2002.00397.x|bibcode=2002TeNov..14...80A|citeseerx=10.1.1.546.4111|s2cid=49553634 }}</ref><ref name="Sdrolias_&_Muller_2006">{{Cite journal|last1=Sdrolias|first1=M|last2=Muller|first2=R.D.|date=2006|title=Controls on back-arc basin formations|journal=Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems|volume=7|issue=4|pages=Q04016|bibcode=2006GGG.....7.4016S|doi=10.1029/2005GC001090|doi-access=free|s2cid=129068818}}</ref><ref name="Brun_&_Fort_2011">{{Cite journal |last1=Brun |first1=J,-P. |last2=Fort |first2=X. |title=Salt tectonics at passive margins: Geology versus models |journal=Marine and Petroleum Geology |date=2011 |volume=28 |issue=6 |pages=1123–1145 |doi=10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.03.004|bibcode=2011MarPG..28.1123B }}</ref>