Investigating the complex interplay between tectonics and sedimentation is a key endeavor in modern earth science. Many of the worlds leading researchersin 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 1960s 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 3 addresses the latest ideas in convergent margin tectonics, including the sedimentary record of subduction intiation and subduction, flat-slab subduction, and arc-continent collision; it then moves inboard to forearc basins and intra-arc basins, and ends with a series of papers formed under compessional strain regimes, as well as post-orogenic intramontane basins. Section 4 examines the origin of plate interior basins, and the sedimentary record of supercontinent formation. This book is required reading for any advanced student or professional interested in sedimentology, plate tectonics, or petroleum geoscience. INDICE: List of Contributors. Preface. PART 1: INTRODUCTION. 1. Tectonics of sedimentary basins, with revised nomenclature (Raymond V. Ingersoll). PART 2: NEW TECHNIQUES AND MODELING. 2. Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology: Currentmethods and new opportunities (George Gehrels). 3. Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide techniques for assessing exposure history of surfaces and sediments in active tectonic regions (John C. Gosse). 4. Magnetostratigraphic techniques and applications (Guillaume Dupont-Nivet and Wout Krigsman). 5. 3D seismic interpretation techniques and attributes: Applications to basin analysis (C. A.-L. Jackson and K.E. Kane). 6. Dispersal and preservation of tectonically generated gravels in sedimentary basins (Philip Allen and Paul Heller). 7. Sediment volumes and source-to-sink evolution: Methods and results (Cristian Carvajal and Ron Steel). 8. Modeling the interaction between lithosphere and surface processes in forleand basins (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 (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 (Rebecca J.).Dorsey and Paul J. Umhoefer). 11. Active transtensional intracontinental basins, Walker Lane Western Great Basin (AngelaS. Jayko and Marcus Bursik). 12. Post-rift deformation of the North and East South Atlantic margins: are passive margins really passive? (Douglas Paton). 13. The impact of early Cretaceous deformation on deposition in the passive margin Scotian basin, offshore eastern Canada (Georgia Pe-Piper and David J.W. Piper). PART 4: CONVERGENT MARGINS (Subduction and collision, from outboard to inboard settings). 14. Sedimentation at plate boundary in transition (Kathleen M. Marsaglia). 15. Evolution of sedimentary environments in the subduction zone of SW Japan: Recent results for the NanTroSEIZE Kumano transect (Michael B. Underwood and Gregory F. Moore). 16. Modification of continental forearc basins by flat-slab subduction processes: A case study from southern Alaska (Kenneth D. Ridgeway, Jeffrey M. Trop and Emily S. Finzel). 17. Basins in arc-continent collisions (Amy E. Draut and Peter D. Clift). 18. The Pampa del Tamarugal forearc basinin Northern Chile: The intersection of tectonics and climate (Peter Nester and Teresa Jordan). 19. Extensional and transtensional continental arc basins: Case studies from the SW U.S (Cathy J. Busby). 20. Foreland basins revisited: distinctions among tectonic settings (Peter DeCelles). 21. Cenozoic evolution of hinterland basins in the Andes and Tibet (Brian K. Horton). 22. Basin response to active extension and strike-slip deformation in the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau (Michael H. Taylor, Paul A. Kapp, and Brian K. Horton). 23. The Betic Cordillera intramontane basi
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9465-5
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
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- Fecha Publicación: 21/10/2011
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