Rifting process of sedimentary basins in the passive continental margin records the lithospheric extension that precedes the opening of oceanic basins (Ranero & Pérez-Gussinyé, 2010;Sutra et al., 2013;Zhou et al., 1995). The stretching factor, β, was proposed by McKenzie (1978) to quantify the lithospheric extension at rifted continental margins. A phenomenon has been widely reported that the stretching factor derived from faulting is far less than the one estimated from whole crustal or lithospheric thinning, referred to as "extension discrepancy" (
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