Tectonics of sedimentary basins : recent advances / edited by Cathy Busby and Antonio Azor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Busby, Cathy, 1951-

Perez Azor, Antonio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sedimentary basins.

Plate tectonics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (663 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Investigating the complex interplay between tectonics and sedimentation is a key endeavor in modern earth science. Many of the world's leading researchers in this field have been brought together in this volume to provide concise overviews of the current state of the subject. The plate tectonic revolution of the 1960's provided the framework for detailed models on the structure of orogens and basins, summarized in a 1995 textbook edited by Busby and Ingersoll. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances focuses on key topics or areas where the greatest strides forward have

Contents:

TECTONICS OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS: RECENT ADVANCES; Contents; Contributors; Preface; PART 1: INTRODUCTION; 1. Tectonics of sedimentary basins, with revised nomenclature; PART 2: NEW TECHNIQUES AND MODELING; 2. Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology: current methods and new opportunities; 3. Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide techniques for assessing exposure history of surfaces and sediments in active tectonic regions; 4. Magnetostratigraphic methods and applications; 5. 3D seismic interpretation techniques: applications to basin analysis

6. Dispersal and preservation of tectonically generated alluvial gravels in sedimentary basins 7. Source-to-sink sediment volumes within a tectono-stratigraphic model for a Laramide shelf-to-deep-water basin: methods and results; 8. Modeling the interaction between lithospheric and surface processes in foreland basins; PART 3: RIFT, POST-RIFT, TRANSTENSIONAL, AND STRIKE-SLIP BASIN SETTINGS; 9. Continental rift basins: the East African perspective

10. Influence of sediment input and plate-motion obliquity on basin development along an active oblique-divergent plate boundary: Gulf of California and Salton Trough 11. Active transtensional intracontinental basins: Walker Lane in the western Great Basin; 12. Post-rift deformation of the North East and South Atlantic margins: are "passive margins" really passive?; 13. The impact of early Cretaceous deformation on deposition in the passive-margin Scotian Basin, offshore eastern Canada; PART 4: CONVERGENT MARGINS: SUBDUCTION AND COLLISION, FROM OUTBOARD TO INBOARD SETTINGS

14. Sedimentation at plate boundaries in transition 15. Evolution of sedimentary environments in the subduction zone of southwest Japan: recent results from the NanTroSEIZE Kumano transect; 16. Modification of continental forearc basins by flat-slab subduction processes: a case study from southern Alaska; 17. Basins in arc-continent collisions; 18. The Pampa del Tamarugal forearc basin in Northern Chile: the interaction of tectonics and climate; 19. Extensional and transtensional continental arc basins: case studies from the southwestern United States

20. Foreland basin systems revisited: variations in response to tectonic settings 21. Cenozoic evolution of hinterland basins in the Andes and Tibet; 22. Basin response to active extension and strike-slip deformation in the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau; 23. The Betic intramontane basins (SE Spain): stratigraphy, subsidence, and tectonic history; 24. Dynamic relationship between subsidence, sedimentation, and unconformities in mid-Cretaceous, shallow-marine strata of the Western Canada Foreland Basin: links to Cordilleran tectonics

25. Structural, geomorphic, and depositional characteristics of contiguous and broken foreland basins: examples from the eastern flanks of the central Andes in Bolivia and NW Argentina

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-41087-7

9786613410870

1-4443-4716-0

1-4443-4713-6

OCLC:

771875979