Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins

Cathy Busby got her BS from Berkeley and her PhD from Princeton University, both in Geological Sciences. She mainly works on upper crustal rocks, combining stratigraphy, structural geology, geochronology, geochemistry and paleomagnetics to solve tectonic problems. Her papers also include process-oriented studies in submarine and subaaerial volcanism, clastic depositional systems, and economic geology. Her research support has come from geothermal and gold exploration industries, as well as the petroleum industry, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Science Foundation. Antonio Azor: Full Professor in Structural Geology and Tectonic Geomorphology at the Department of Geodynamics of the University of Granada (Spain). Research fields of interest: Structural Geology and Tectonics, Active Tectonics, Tectonic Geomorphology, Regional Geology of the Late Palaeozoic Variscan Orogen and the Alpine Betic Cordillera.

• Contributors viiPreface xiPart 1: Introduction1. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, With Revised Nomenclature 3Raymond V. IngersollPart 2: New Techniques and Modeling2. Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology: Current Methods and New Opportunities 47George Gehrels3. Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide Techniques for Assessing Exposure History of Surfaces and Sediments in Active Tectonic Regions 63John C. Gosse4. Magnetostratigraphic Methods and Applications 80Guillaume Dupont-Nivet and Wout Krijgsman5. 3d Seismic Interpretation Techniques: Applications to Basin Analysis 95Christopher A-L. Jackson and Karla E. Kane6. Dispersal and Preservation of Tectonically Generated Alluvial Gravels in Sedimentary Basins 111Philip A. Allen and Paul L. Heller7. Source-To-Sink Sediment Volumes Within A Tectono-Stratigraphic Model For A Laramide Shelf-To-Deep-Water Basin: Methods And Results 131Cristian Carvajal and Ron Steel8. Modeling the Interaction Between Lithospheric And Surface Processes In Foreland Basins 152Daniel Garcia-Castellanos and Sierd CloetinghPart 3: Rift, Post-Rift, Transtensional, and Strike-Slip Basin Settings9. Continental Rift Basins: The East African Perspective 185Cynthia Ebinger and Christopher A. Scholz10. Influence of Sediment Input and Plate-Motion Obliquity on Basin Development Along An ActiveOblique-Divergent Plate Boundary: Gulf Of California And Salton Trough 209Rebecca J. Dorsey And Paul J. Umhoefer11. Active Transtensional Intracontinental Basins: Walker Lane in the Western Great Basin 226Angela S. Jayko and Marcus Bursik12. Post-Rift Deformation of The North East and South Atlantic Margins: Are “Passive Margins” Really Passive? 249Douglas Paton13. The Impact Of Early Cretaceous Deformation On Deposition In The Passive-Margin Scotian Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada 270Georgia Pe-Piper And David J.W. PiperPart 4: Convergent Margins: Subduction And Collision, From Outboard To Inboard Settings14. Sedimentation At Plate Boundaries In Transition 291Kathleen M. Marsaglia15. Evolution of Sedimentary Environments in the Subduction Zone Of Southwest Japan: Recent Results From The Nantroseize Kumano Transect 310Michael B. Underwood and Gregory F. Moore16. Modification of Continental Forearc Basins By Flat-Slab Subduction Processes: A Case Study From Southern Alaska 327Kenneth D. Ridgway, Jeffrey M. Trop and Emily S. Finzel17. Basins in Arc-Continent Collisions 347Amy E. Draut and Peter D. Clift18. The Pampa Del Tamarugal Forearc Basin in Northern Chile: The Interaction of Tectonics and Climate 369Peter Nester and Teresa Jordan19. Extensional and Transtensional Continental Arc Basins: Case Studies From The Southwestern United States 382Cathy J. Busby20. Foreland Basin Systems Revisited: Variations in Response to Tectonic Settings 405Peter G. Decelles21. Cenozoic Evolution of Hinterland Basins in the Andes and Tibet 427Brian K. Horton22. Basin Response To Active Extension And Strike-Slip Deformation In The Hinterland Of The Tibetan Plateau 445Michael H. Taylor, Paul A. Kapp, And Brian K. Horton23. The Betic Intramontane Basins (Se Spain): Stratigraphy, Subsidence, and Tectonic History 461Jose´ Rodri´Guez-Ferna´Ndez, Antonio Azor, and Jose´ Miguel Azan˜o´N24. Dynamic Relationship Between Subsidence, Sedimentation, And Unconformities In Mid-Cretaceous, Shallow-Marine Strata Of The Western Canada Foreland Basin: Links To Cordilleran Tectonics 480A. 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. Hay25. 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 508Manfred R. Strecker, George E. Hilley, Bodo Bookhagen, And Edward R. Sobel26. Thrust Wedge/Foreland Basin Systems 522Hugh Sinclair27. 2d Kinematic Models of Growth Fault-Related Folds in Contractional Settings 538Josep PobletPart 5: Plate Interior Basins and Widespread Basin Types28. Plate Interior Poly-Phase Basins 567Cari L. Johnson and Bradley D. Ritts29. The Great Grenvillian Sedimentation Episode: Record of Supercontinent Rodinia’s Assembly 583Robert Rainbird, Peter Cawood and George Gehrels30. Cratonic Basins 602Philip A. Allen and John J. Armitage31. Endorheic Basins 621Gary NicholsIndex 633

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