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margin throughout the plate tectonic history of the Central Mediterranean. Crystalline
basement is continuous between Sicily and North Africa, and continental crust underlies the
entire Pelagian realm. Stretching and thinning in the Sicily channel rift complex in late
Miocene to Recent times results from transtensional dextral shear, and the dominant mode
of deformation appears to be development of pull-apart basins (Klett, 2001).
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