A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense mass created by...
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Acadian orogeny (section Foreland basin)
described as foreland-basin, delta-complex clastic wedges, which are responsible for the large volumes of sediment input into the Appalachian basin. The collision...
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Molasse basin (or North Alpine foreland basin) is a foreland basin north of the Alps which formed during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. The basin formed...
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The Himalayan foreland basin is an active collisional foreland basin system in South Asia. Uplift and loading of the Eurasian Plate on to the Indian Plate...
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Orogeny (section Closure of the ocean basin)
these are present in all foreland-basin systems. The basin migrates with the orogenic front and early deposited foreland basin sediments become progressively...
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The Andean foreland basins or Sub-Andean basins are a group of foreland basins located in the western half of South America immediately east of the Andes...
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an area of 240,000 km2 (93,000 sq mi). The Arabian Plate basin a wedge-shaped foreland basin which lies beneath the western Zagros thrust and was created...
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Precambrian to late Paleozoic time. The basin developed as a series of foreland basins – in other words, basins developing immediately in front of growing...
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in front of something Foreland basin, in geology, the zone that receives sediment from an adjacent mountain chain Glacier foreland, the area between the...
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The Alaskan North Slope (ANS) is a foreland basin located on the northern edge of the Brooks Range. The Alaska North Slope is bounded on the north by the...
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front of rising mountain chains. The molasse deposits accumulate in a foreland basin, especially on top of flysch-like deposits, for example, those that...
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x. DeCelles, Peter G.; Giles, Katherine A. (June 1996). "Foreland basin systems" (PDF). Basin Research. 8 (2): 105–123. Bibcode:1996BasR....8..105D. doi:10...
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Bengal basin is essentially a residual ocean basin and developed on the eastern continental margin of India. The Bengal basin is a foreland basin with a...
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peninsular region. Foreland basin Forebulge https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14634988.2017.1304129 "Life in the Ganga - Brahmaputra Basin | Human Environment...
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Tectonics of the Tian Shan (section Kuqa Foreland)
loading, the Kuqa depression became an intra-continental foreland basin. The cross-section of the basin is asymmetric and its depositional center lies close...
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Sevier orogeny (section Foreland sedimentation)
"Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and foreland basin system, western U.S.A." American Journal of Science. 304 (2): 105–168...
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The Arkoma Basin is a peripheral foreland basin that extends from central west Arkansas to south eastern Oklahoma. The basin lies in between the Ozark...
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forearc, backarc-marginal sea, fold and thrust belt, and foreland basins. Sedimentary basin analysis is largely conducted by two types of geologists who...
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The Maracaibo Basin, also known as Lake Maracaibo natural region, Lake Maracaibo depression or Lake Maracaibo Lowlands, is a foreland basin and one of the...
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and glaciations. An example of forebulge can be seen in the Himalayan foreland basin, a result of the Indian-Eurasian (continent-continent) plate collision...
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The Wind River Basin or Shoshone Basin is a semi-arid intermontane foreland basin in central Wyoming, United States. It is bounded by Laramide uplifts...
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orogenies with numerous overthrust faults. Thrust faults occur in the foreland basin, marginal to orogenic belts. Here, compression does not result in appreciable...
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Bolivar Coastal Fields (section Foreland Phase)
back-arc basins are found offshore of the Venezuelan margin. A west-to-east lounging pattern of thrusts and lateral ramp faults and foreland basins onshore...
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Geology of the Appalachians (redirect from Appalachian Basin)
the Appalachian Highlands).[citation needed] The Appalachian Basin is a foreland basin containing Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of early Cambrian through...
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Tectonic subsidence (redirect from Intracontinental basin)
including passive margins, aulacogens, fore-arc basins, foreland basins, intercontinental basins and pull-apart basins. Three mechanisms are common in the tectonic...
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(OSM) of the Miocene are now known to extend through the North Alpine foreland basin and onto the Swabian Jura with thickness of up to 250 m (820 ft); these...
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The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) underlies 1.4 million square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba...
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originally deposited in a fan delta at the margin of the Ebro Basin, part of the foreland basin to the Pyrenees, during the middle Eocene. The conglomerate...
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The Timan-Pechora Basin is a sedimentary basin located between Timan Ridge and the Ural Mountains in northern Russia. The basin contains oil and gas fields...
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The Paradox Basin is an asymmetric foreland basin located mostly in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, but extending into northeast Arizona and northwest...
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