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Book SynopsisInvestigating 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 been made, while also providing on-line access to the comprehensive 1995 book.
Breakthroughs in new techniques are described in Section 1, including detrital zircon geochronology, cosmogenic nuclide dating, magnetostratigraphy, 3-D seismic, and basin modelling. Section 2 presents the new models for rift, post-rift, transtensional and strike slip basin settings. Section
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Table of ContentsContributors vii
Preface xi
Part 1: Introduction
1. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, With Revised Nomenclature 3
Raymond V. Ingersoll
Part 2: New Techniques and Modeling
2. Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology: Current Methods and New Opportunities 47
George Gehrels
3. Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide Techniques for Assessing Exposure History of Surfaces and Sediments in Active Tectonic Regions 63
John C. Gosse
4. Magnetostratigraphic Methods and Applications 80
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet and Wout Krijgsman
5. 3d Seismic Interpretation Techniques: Applications to Basin Analysis 95
Christopher A-L. Jackson and Karla E. Kane
6. Dispersal and Preservation of Tectonically Generated Alluvial Gravels in Sedimentary Basins 111
Philip A. Allen and Paul L. Heller
7. Source-To-Sink Sediment Volumes Within A Tectono-Stratigraphic Model For A Laramide Shelf-To-Deep-Water Basin: Methods And Results 131
Cristian Carvajal and Ron Steel
8. Modeling the Interaction Between Lithospheric And Surface Processes In Foreland Basins 152
Daniel Garcia-Castellanos and Sierd Cloetingh
Part 3: Rift, Post-Rift, Transtensional, and Strike-Slip Basin Settings
9. Continental Rift Basins: The East African Perspective 185
Cynthia Ebinger and Christopher A. Scholz
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 209
Rebecca J. Dorsey And Paul J. Umhoefer
11. Active Transtensional Intracontinental Basins: Walker Lane in the Western Great Basin 226
Angela S. Jayko and Marcus Bursik
12. Post-Rift Deformation of The North East and South Atlantic Margins: Are “Passive Margins” Really Passive? 249
Douglas Paton
13. The Impact Of Early Cretaceous Deformation On Deposition In The Passive-Margin Scotian Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada 270
Georgia Pe-Piper And David J.W. Piper
Part 4: Convergent Margins: Subduction And Collision, From Outboard To Inboard Settings
14. Sedimentation At Plate Boundaries In Transition 291
Kathleen M. Marsaglia
15. Evolution of Sedimentary Environments in the Subduction Zone Of Southwest Japan: Recent Results From The Nantroseize Kumano Transect 310
Michael B. Underwood and Gregory F. Moore
16. Modification of Continental Forearc Basins By Flat-Slab Subduction Processes: A Case Study From Southern Alaska 327
Kenneth D. Ridgway, Jeffrey M. Trop and Emily S. Finzel
17. Basins in Arc-Continent Collisions 347
Amy E. Draut and Peter D. Clift
18. The Pampa Del Tamarugal Forearc Basin in Northern Chile: The Interaction of Tectonics and Climate 369
Peter Nester and Teresa Jordan
19. Extensional and Transtensional Continental Arc Basins: Case Studies From The Southwestern United States 382
Cathy J. Busby
20. Foreland Basin Systems Revisited: Variations in Response to Tectonic Settings 405
Peter G. Decelles
21. Cenozoic Evolution of Hinterland Basins in the Andes and Tibet 427
Brian K. Horton
22. Basin Response To Active Extension And Strike-Slip Deformation In The Hinterland Of The Tibetan Plateau 445
Michael H. Taylor, Paul A. Kapp, And Brian K. Horton
23. The Betic Intramontane Basins (Se Spain): Stratigraphy, Subsidence, and Tectonic History 461
Jose´ Rodri´Guez-Ferna´Ndez, Antonio Azor, and Jose´ Miguel Azan˜o´N
24. Dynamic Relationship Between Subsidence, Sedimentation, And Unconformities In Mid-Cretaceous, Shallow-Marine Strata Of The Western Canada Foreland Basin: Links To Cordilleran Tectonics 480
A. Guy Plint, Aditya Tyagi, Phil J.A. Mccausland, Jessica R. Krawetz (Nee Rylaarsdam), Heng Zhang, Xavier Roca, Bogdan L. Varban, Y. Greg Hu, Michael A. Kreitner And Michael J. Hay
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 508
Manfred R. Strecker, George E. Hilley, Bodo Bookhagen, And Edward R. Sobel
26. Thrust Wedge/Foreland Basin Systems 522
Hugh Sinclair
27. 2d Kinematic Models of Growth Fault-Related Folds in Contractional Settings 538
Josep Poblet
Part 5: Plate Interior Basins and Widespread Basin Types
28. Plate Interior Poly-Phase Basins 567
Cari L. Johnson and Bradley D. Ritts
29. The Great Grenvillian Sedimentation Episode: Record of Supercontinent Rodinia’s Assembly 583
Robert Rainbird, Peter Cawood and George Gehrels
30. Cratonic Basins 602
Philip A. Allen and John J. Armitage
31. Endorheic Basins 621
Gary Nichols
Index 633
