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"In essence, we now have a front row seat to observe a critical rifting phase that had fundamentally shaped all rifted margins across the world," says co-author Folarin Kolawole, who is also with Lamont.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

When Columbia rifted apart, the division happened within the area of the Purcell/Belt rocks.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

This region was rifted apart during the breakup of the supercontinent Columbia, after which sedimentation continued on the western margin of Laurentia with the deposition of the Windermere Group.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when the rifted storm has rolled away, And stillness reascends her solemn throne, Ruin looks forth from retrospection's tower, And memory weeps where desolation reigns.

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.