Lecture Topics |
Course Notes |
Reading assignments | |
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Basins in their plate tectonic environment |
pdf ( 8.9 Mb) |
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The physical state of the lithosphere |
pdf (3.8 Mb) |
Crust and lithosphere dynamics: an overview (by Watts, A.B. 2007 Treatise of Geophysics - Elsevier) |
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Basins due to lithospheric stretching |
Gawthorpe, R.L. & Leeder, M.R. (2000) Tectono-sedimentary evolution of active extensional basins. Basin Research 12, 195-218. |
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Basins due to flexure |
pdf (5.4 Mb) |
Peripheral and retroarc foreland basin |
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Basins associated with subduction zones |
pdf (5.4 Mb) |
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Basins associated with strike-slip deformation |
pdf (7.3 Mb) |
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The sediment routing system | pdf |
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Basin stratigraphy | pdf (5.4 Mb) |
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Subsidence and thermal history | pdf |
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The petroleum play |
pdf |
Web Resources
General
Understanding Plate Motion: USGS
Advanced Structural Geology: W. F. Waldron at University of Alberta
3. Basins due to lithospheric stretching
Quantitative Filling Model for Continental Extensional Basins: R. W. Schlische at Dept. of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University
Rift Basin Architecture and Evolution: R. W. Schlische & M. O. Withjack at Dept. of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University
3-D Diagram of a Rift Basin: R. W. Schlische at Dept. of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University
Basin and Range province: The rise and fall of Death Valley's mountain ranges and valleys
4. Basins due to flexure
Foreland Thrust-and-Fold Belts: W. F. Waldron at University of Alberta
Alpine Foreland Basin in Southeastern France
Devonian Clastic Wedges of the Acadian Orogeny, N. America
Virtual field trip to the Apulia foreland basin
6. Basins associated with strike-slip deformation