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The area that separates the continental and oceanic crust is called a rifted continental margin; this forms when continents start to break apart and new oceans are formed in between.

Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2008

When he didn't make brigadier, he was "rifted" (for "reduction in force": the army's way of con'trolling its reserve-officer-corps population).

Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983

Behind Mr. Steegman's simple statement are growing strains inside Ms. Merkel's coalition government, which has rifted over how much German taxpayers can be asked to pay for safeguarding the euro.

Germany Opposes Larger Rescue Fund Bernd Radowitz 2011

Black Force and The Spout are two such sights when in spate, only visible after negotiating a ghyll on the old Westmorland-Yorkshire border as rifted as the Rishi Ganga Gorge in northern India.

Country diary: Uldale Force Tony Greenbank 2010

I note quite a few of us have rifted over to Twitter recently.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Virtual friends. 2009

I've come out of a rifted society, and I'm very, very interested in that idea, that you can take a physical and geological divide, and conceptually close it, and heal, heal people, heal yourself.

CNN Transcript May 30, 2009 2009

Subsequent movement rifted these later lava fields, causing long, linear valleys bounded by parallel faults.

Iceland as a model for Renewable energy 2008

It would involve a new franchise that rifted off of the comedic and parody opportunities of Jack Bauher, 24, and the “war on terror” rhetoric.

Row Three » Brace Yourself: Get Smart Trailer - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

She saw the rifted clouds of glory and the hidden battlements of heaven.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

Palawan (along with the Calamianes and the island of Mindoro) was rifted (below water) from the Asian mainland approximately 32 million years ago, transported through seafloor spreading across the growing South China Sea, added to the growing Philippine Archipelago approximately 17 million years ago, and uplifted above water approximately 5-10 million years ago.

Palawan rain forests 2008