The references below will lead you to some of the discussion on rifting and the Wilson Cycle:

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BOSWORTH, W. 1985. Geometry of propagating continental rifts. Nature 316, 625-627.

BOSWORTH, W. 1987. Off-axis volcanism in the Gregory rift, East Africa: implications for models of continental rifting. Geology 15, 397-400.

BOTT, M.H.P 1995. Mechanisms ofrifting: Geodynamic modeling of continental rift systems. In: K.H. Olsen (ed.) Continental rifts: evolution, structure, tectonics. Developments in Geotectonics, 25, 27-43. Elsevier, Amsterdam

BRAILE, L.W., KELLER, G.R., WENDLANDT, R.F., MORGAN, P. & KHAN, M.A. 1995. The East African Rift system. In: K.H. Olsen (ed.) Continental rifts: evolution, structure, tectonics. Developments in Geotectonics, 25, Elsevier, Amsterdam

BURKE, K. & DEWEY, J.F. 1973. Plume generated triple junctions: key indicators in applying plate tectonics to old rock. Journal of Geology 81, 406-433.

BURKE, K. & WHITEMAN, A.J. 1973. Uplift, rifting and break-up of Africa. In TARLING, D.H. & RUNCORN, S.K. (eds) Implications of continental drift to the earth sciences. Academic Press, London. 735-755.

DEWEY, J.F. & BURKE, K. 1974. Hotspots and continental break-up: implications for collisional orogeny. Geology 2, 57-60.

DUNCAN, C.C. & TURCOTTE, D.L. 1994. On the breakup and coalescence of continents. Geology 22, 103-106.

GURNIS, M. 1988. Large-scale mantle convection and the aggregation and dispersal of continents. Nature 332, 695-699.

MORGAN, W.J. 1981. Hotspot tracks and the opening of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In Emiliani, C. (ed) The Sea. Volume 7, 443-487. Wiley, New York.

MORGAN, W.J. 1983. Hotspot tracks and the early rifting of the Atlantic. Tectonophysics 94, 123-139.

MURPHY, J.B. & NANCE, R.D. 1992. Mountain belts and the supercontinent cycle. Scientific American 266, 84-91.

OLSEN, K.H. & MORGAN, P. 1995. Introduction: Progress in understanding continental rifts. In: K.H. Olsen (ed.) Continental rifts: evolution, structure, tectonics. Developments in Geotectonics, 25, 3-26. Elsevier, Amsterdam

SPOHN, T. & SCHUBERT, G. 1982. Convective thinning of the lithosphere: a mechanism for the initiation of continental rifting. Journal of Geophysical Research 87, 4669-4681.

WHITE, R.S. & McKENZIE, D.P. 1989. Magmatism at rift zones: the generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts. Journal of Geophysical Research 94, 7685-7730.

WILSON, J.T. 1966. Did the Atlantic close and then re-open? Nature 211, 676-681.