Faults control the flux of water into the Earth during continental breakup

Gaye Bayrakci1, Timothy A Minshull1, Dale S Sawyer2, Timothy J Reston3, Dirk Klaeschen4, Cord A Papenberg4, Cesar R Ranero5, Jonathan Bull6, Richard Davy6, Donna J Shillington7, Marta Perez-Gussinye8,9 and Julia Morgan2, (1)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (3)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (4)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (5)Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, (6)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (7)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Earth Sciences, Egham, United Kingdom, (9)MARUM - University of Bremen, Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany