1. These basins were rift basins formed by the rifting of Rodinia. 2. It is part of the system of Eastern North America Rift Basins . 3. Rift basins are elongated, narrow and deep basins.4. Buchan metamorphism occurs often in extensional settings, for example at rift basins . 5. They sit in the Newark Basin, a rift basin located mostly in New Jersey. 6. Other rift basins with the same orientation formed in the region at the same time. 7. Thick layers of evaporites are formed due to continuous water evaporation and fill of the rift basin . 8. Lake Baikal is located in the rift basin and has an age of about 25-30 million years. 9. Brief periods of rapid rift basin , or with the accumulation of volcanic material around a periodically erupting stratovolcano. 10. The trough is a linear belt of sedimentary and volcanic rocks which developed in an Early Proterozoic rift basin .
