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Choi, E.-S., L. L. Lavier, and M. Gurnis, The thermo-mechanics of mid-ocean ridge segmentation, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 171, 374-386, 2008 

Van Avendonk, H. J. A., L. L. Lavier, D. J. Shillington, and G. Manatschal, Extension of continental crust at the margin of the eastern Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Tectonophysics, (in press), doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.030, 2008 

Manatschal, G., O. Muntener, L. L. Lavier, T. A. Minshull, and O. G. Peron-Pinvidic, Observations from the alpine tethys and Iberia/Newfoundland margins pertinent to the interpretation of continental break-up, in Imaging Mapping and Modelling Continentlal Lithosphere Extension and Breakup, edited by G. D. Karner, G. Manatschal, and L. M. Pinheiro, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub., 282, 291-324, 2007 

Hornbach, M. J., L. L. Lavier, and C. D. Ruppel, Triggering mechanism and tsunamigenic potential of the Cape Fear slide complex, U. S. Atlantic margin, Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 9,  2007 

Lavier, L. L., and G. Manatschal, A mechanism to thin the continental lithosphere at magma-poor margins, Nature, 440, 324-328, 2006

Buck, W. R., L. L. Lavier, and A. N. B. Poliakov, Moded of faulting at mid-ocean ridges, Nature, 434, 719-723, 2005

Gurnis, M., L. L. Lavier, and C. Hall, Evolving force balance during incipient subduction, Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 5,  2004

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