Category: Interpreting ancient environments

April 16, 2021

Some terminology for Thrust faults, duplexes, imbricate fans, and fold-thrust belts. Thrusts are reverse faults

April 9, 2021

Basins formed by flexure of oceanic and continental lithosphere; foreland basin exemplars. What is flexure?

March 26, 2021

A fault is a plane or linear zone of displacement, where rocks on one side

March 18, 2021

Progression of continental rifting to sea floor spreading creates paired (conjugate) passive margins over which

March 16, 2021

Rift basins, ocean basins, and passive margins form a dynamic continuum within the framework of

January 30, 2021

The rationale for classification of sedimentary basins The formulation of plate tectonic theory in the

January 29, 2021

The thermal structure of the lithosphere influences its strength and rheology, and the diagenetic-metamorphic changes

January 22, 2021

Isostasy describes the state of balance between the lithosphere and asthenosphere. Isostasy describes the state

January 19, 2021

The mechanical behaviour, or rheology of the lithosphere. Sedimentary basins are regions of long-term

January 19, 2021

Sedimentary basins are lithosphere-scale structures. They occupy the uppermost levels of tectonic plates, responding to