3.1 Here are some important questions you might ask about a given sedi-mentary basin: What … See more

5.1 Much effort has gone into developing ways of figuring out paths of dispersal of sedimentary material in basins. One of the standard ways is to mea-sure paleocurrent directions r… See more

6.2.1 On a small scale, hundreds to thousands of meters laterally, fault movements can create relief of hundreds to thousands of meters, resulting in small but often deep … See more

7.1 The concept of geosynclines was developed in the last century to deal with the existence of thick successions of sedimentary rocks in what we would to-day call orogeni… See more

location and tectonic setting: in anorogenic areas on cratons (Figure 11-5). tectonic and sedimentary processes: These basins have no apparent connection with plate tectonics. T… See more