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Glossary: Sedimentary Basins – Tectonics

An accretionary prism and forearc basin above a subducting slab of oceanic lithosphere, with a magmatic arc as structural backstop (or buttress) and the main source of sediment.
An accretionary prism and forearc basin above a subducting slab of oceanic lithosphere, with a magmatic arc as structural backstop (or buttress) and the main source of sediment.

Glossary of sedimentary basins, and the associated lithospheric and tectonic conditions that govern their formation.

Glossary: Sedimentary basins and tectonics

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dip and strike compass
Measuring dip and strike
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Classification of sandstones
Calcite cemented subarkose, Proterozoic Altyn Fm. southern Alberta
Sandstones in thin section
poles to bedding great circles
Stereographic projection – poles to planes
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Fluid flow: Froude and Reynolds numbers
Stokes Law for particle settling in a schematic context of other fluid flow functions
Fluid flow: Stokes Law and particle settling
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Classification of sedimentary basins
Model are representational descriptions are written in different languages - diagrammatic, descriptive, mathematical, and conceptual. They commonly contain variables and dimensionless quantities that permit quantitative analysis of the physical systems the models represent.
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