Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins – Recent Advances

Contributors vii
<p>Preface xi</p>
<p>PART 1: INTRODUCTION</p>
<p>1. Tectonics of sedimentary basins, with revised nomenclature 3<br /> Raymond V. Ingersoll</p>
<p>PART 2: NEW TECHNIQUES AND MODELING</p>
<p>2. Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology: current methods and new opportunities 47<br /> George Gehrels</p>
<p>3. Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide techniques for assessing exposure history of surfaces and sediments in active tectonic regions 63<br /> John C. Gosse</p>
<p>4. Magnetostratigraphic methods and applications 80<br /> Guillaume Dupont–Nivet and Wout Krijgsman</p>
<p>5. 3D seismic interpretation techniques: applications to basin analysis 95<br /> Christopher A–L. Jackson and Karla E. Kane</p>
<p>6. Dispersal and preservation of tectonically generated alluvial gravels in sedimentary basins 111<br /> Philip A. Allen and Paul L. Heller</p>
<p>7. Source–to–sink sediment volumes within a tectono–stratigraphic model for a Laramide shelf–to–deep–water basin: methods and results 131<br /> Cristian Carvajal and Ron Steel</p>
<p>8. Modeling the interaction between lithospheric and surface processes in foreland basins 152<br /> Daniel Garcia–Castellanos and Sierd Cloetingh</p>
<p>PART 3: RIFT, POST–RIFT, TRANSTENSIONAL, AND STRIKE–SLIP BASIN SETTINGS</p>
<p>9. Continental rift basins: the East African perspective 185<br /> Cynthia Ebinger and Christopher A. Scholz</p>
<p>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<br /> Rebecca J. Dorsey and Paul J. Umhoefer</p>
<p>11. Active transtensional intracontinental basins: Walker Lane in the western Great Basin 226<br /> Angela S. Jayko and Marcus Bursik</p>
<p>12. Post–rift deformation of the North East and South Atlantic margins: are "passive margins" really passive? 249<br /> Douglas Paton</p>
<p>13. The impact of early Cretaceous deformation on deposition in the passive–margin Scotian Basin, offshore eastern Canada 270<br /> Georgia Pe–Piper and David J.W. Piper</p>
<p>PART 4: CONVERGENT MARGINS: SUBDUCTION AND COLLISION, FROM OUTBOARD TO INBOARD SETTINGS</p>
<p>14. Sedimentation at plate boundaries in transition 291<br /> Kathleen M. Marsaglia</p>
<p>15. Evolution of sedimentary environments in the subduction zone of southwest Japan: recent results from the NanTroSEIZE Kumano transect 310<br /> Michael B. Underwood and Gregory F. Moore</p>
<p>16. Modification of continental forearc basins by flat–slab subduction processes: a case study from southern Alaska 327<br /> Kenneth D. Ridgway, Jeffrey M. Trop and Emily S. Finzel</p>
<p>17. Basins in arc–continent collisions 347<br /> Amy E. Draut and Peter D. Clift</p>
<p>18. The Pampa del Tamarugal forearc basin in Northern Chile: the interaction of tectonics and climate 369<br /> Peter Nester and Teresa Jordan</p>
<p>19. Extensional and transtensional continental arc basins: case studies from the southwestern United States 382<br /> Cathy J. Busby</p>
<p>20. Foreland basin systems revisited: variations in response to tectonic settings 405<br /> Peter G. DeCelles</p>
<p>21. Cenozoic evolution of hinterland basins in the Andes and Tibet 427<br /> Brian K. Horton</p>
<p>22. Basin response to active extension and strike–slip deformation in the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau 445<br /> Michael H. Taylor, Paul A. Kapp, and Brian K. Horton</p>
<p>23. The Betic intramontane basins (SE Spain): stratigraphy, subsidence, and tectonic history 461<br /> Jose Rodr guez–Fernandez, Antonio Azor, and Jose Miguel Azanon</p>
<p>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<br /> 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</p>
<p>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<br /> Manfred R. Strecker, George E. Hilley, Bodo Bookhagen, and Edward R. Sobel</p>
<p>26. Thrust wedge/foreland basin systems 522<br /> Hugh Sinclair</p>
<p>27. 2D kinematic models of growth fault–related folds in contractional settings 538<br /> Josep Poblet</p>
<p>PART 5: PLATE INTERIOR BASINS AND WIDESPREAD BASIN TYPES</p>
<p>28. Plate interior poly–phase basins 567<br /> Cari L. Johnson and Bradley D. Ritts</p>
<p>29. The great Grenvillian sedimentation episode: record of supercontinent Rodinia′s assembly 583<br /> Robert Rainbird, Peter Cawood and George Gehrels</p>
<p>30. Cratonic basins 602<br /> Philip A. Allen and John J. Armitage</p>
<p>31. Endorheic basins 621<br /> Gary Nichols</p>
<p>Index 633</p>