Foreland BasinsP. A. Allen, P. Homewood John Wiley & Sons, 8 abr 2009 - 368 páginas The outcome of a symposium held in Fribourg, Switzerland, this book fulfils two aims. Firstly, it represents a collection of case-studies covering a wide range of basin types and tectonic and stratigraphic settings. Secondly, it highlights a number of specific themes such as the history of subsidence and its relation to orogenesis, the stratigraphic architecture of the basin fill and the petrographic signature of foreland basin deposits. The text comprises five sections with a total of 26 contributions and it will be of special interest to teachers, researchers and petroleum geologists concerned with the relationships between tectonics and sedimentation. This is because it clearly demonstrates the many recent advances within the field of basin analysis by an integration of sedimentological, stratigraphical, structural and geophysical data. |
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Alpine basins of Europe and Asia | 103 |
Palaeozoic of North America | 307 |
Petrography and stratigraphic techniques | 393 |
Términos y frases comunes
allochthonous alluvial fan Alpine Alps anticline Apennines Appalachian Atokan Banda Arc basement basin margin beds Bull carbonate Cenozoic clastic clasts conglomerates continental margin craton Cretaceous cross-section crust crustal deformation depocentres deposits detritus eastern Ebro Basin Eocene erosion evolution facies flexure fluvial flysch fold and thrust foredeep foreland basin Formation geol Geology Helvetic Himalayan Huaco Jurassic Laramide late limestones lithosphere loading lower magmatic Mesozoic Messinian migration Miocene Molasse Basin Mountains mudstones nappes northern Oligocene onlap orogenic belt Ouachita overthrust Palaeogene Palaeozoic passive margin Petrol plate Pliocene Potwar Plateau progradation ramp region Ricci Lucchi rocks Salt Range sand sandstone sea-level sedimentary sedimentation seismic sequence shales shelf Siwalik slope southern strata stratigraphic structural subduction subsidence syntectonic tectonic terrane thick thrust belt thrust faults thrust sheets Tortonian trend trough turbidites unconformities units uplift upper Val Verde wedge western zone