Symmetry during the syn- and post-rift evolution of extensional back-arc basins: The role of inherited orogenic structures

- Spatial and temporal migration of extension is observed in numerical models and nature.
- Rheological heterogeneities control variable subsidence rates.
- Surface processes control syn-rift and post-rift basin subsidence and uplift.
- Extension rate controls lithospheric and crustal thinning.
- Symmetry of extensional system changes during basin evolution.