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characterized by flood basalts and may progress to the point where a tectonic plate is completely split. A divergent plate boundary then develops between the two-halves of the split plate. However, rifting often fails to completely split the continental lithosphere (such as in an aulacogen), and failed rifts are characterized by volcanoes that erupt unusual alkali lava or carbonatites. Examples

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