Tectonic Controls and Signatures in Sedimentary Successions
Special Publication 20 of the IAS
Published on 13. April 2009
576 pages
978-1-4443-0406-0 (ISBN)
Description
Stratigraphers and sedimentologists who are presently describing and interpreting the infill of sedimentary basins are generally agreed that it is difficult to disentangle the signatures of tectonic processes from those of climate and eustatic sea level change in the resultant rock succession. Until better criteria are developed to distinguish between the roles played by the major variables, it is still most useful to document and interpret basin-fill architectures where we know, from independent evidence, that one of the main controls is likely to have been a major contributor. This book contains a collection of papers describing situations where the tectonic setting is fairly well established, and it can be assumed that at least the tectonic factor has contributed to the resultant signatures.
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Lynne E Frostick is a British geographer. She is currently Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Hull.
Content
- Intro
- Tectonic Controls and Signatures in Sedimentary Successions
- Contents
- Preface
- Tectonic signatures in sedimentary basin fills: an overview
- Sedimentary Response to Tectonic Events
- The interrelations of post-collision tectonism and sedimentation in Central Asia
- Distribution of Plio-Pleistocene and Modern coarse-grained deltas south of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece
- Some controls on sedimentary sequences in foreland basins: examples from the Alberta Basin
- Stratigraphy and sedimentary development of the Sant Llorenc del Munt fan-delta complex (Eocene, southern Pyrenean foreland basin, northeast Spain)
- Evidence for Late Holocene relative sea-level fall from reconnaissance stratigraphical studies in an area of earthquake-subsided intertidal deposits, Isla Chiloe, southern Chile
- Divergent Plate-Margin Basins
- Sedimentation in divergent plate-margin basins
- Sea-level changes and extensional tectonics in the Lower Jurassic (northern Helvetic realm, western Switzerland)
- The Tertiary Queen Charlotte Basin: a strike-slip basin on the western Canadian continental margin
- Middle Devonian to Dinantian sedimentation in the Campine Basin (northern Belgium): its relation to Variscan tectonism
- A basin reappraisal of the Proterozoic Torridon Group, northwest Scotland
- Stratigraphical evolution of a Proterozoic syn-rift to post-rift basin: constraints on the nature of lithospheric extension in the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia
- Convergent Plate-Margin Basins
- Controls on sedimentation at convergent plate-margins
- Thrust-generated, back-fill stacking of alluvial fan sequences, south-central Pyrenees, Spain (La Pobla de Segur Conglomerates)
- Evolution of a Pliocene fan-delta: links between the Sorbas and Carboneras Basins, southeast Spain
- Tectonic generation of lowstand turbidite units in a foreland basin, Marchean Apennines, Italy
- Tectonic controls on non-marine sedimentation in a Cretaceous fore-arc basin, Baja California, Mexico
- Basin-fill patterns controlled by tectonics and climate: the Neogene `fore-arc' basins of eastern Crete as a case history
- Ancient and modern examples of tectonic escape basins: the Archaean Witwatersrand Basin compared with the Cenozoic Maracaibo Basin
- Tectonically induced clastic sediment diversion and the origin of thick, widespread coal beds (Appalachian and Williston basins, USA)
- Plio-Pleistocene outer arc basins in southern Central America (Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica)
- Mesozoic-Tertiary sedimentary and tectonic evolution of Neotethyan carbonate platforms, margins and small ocean basins in the Antalya Complex of southwest Turkey
- Growth of a sloperidge and its control on sedimentation: Paola slope basin (eastern Tyrrhenian margin)
- Sedimentation and tectonics of the Khomas Hochland accretionary prism, along a Late Proterozoic continental margin, Damara Sequence, central Namibia
- Index
