Geological-logo
Contact
Geological-logo
Geological-logo

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

Archives
Categories
Most Popular
Conjugate fractures and en echelon tension gashes – indicators of brittle failure in Old Red Sandstone, Gougane Barra, County Cork, Ireland.
Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria
April 3, 2024
Stokes Law for particle settling in a schematic context of other fluid flow functions
Fluid flow: Stokes Law and particle settling
March 9, 2023
Classification of sandstones
June 7, 2019
Measuring dip and strike
February 1, 2019
Faults – some common terminology
March 26, 2021
A montage of stress transformation paraphernalia and rock deformation
Mohr circles and stress transformation
March 23, 2024
Recent Posts
SiteLock
Scroll to Top