Research Catalog

Title

Sedimentary basins and basin-forming mechanisms / edited by Christopher Beaumont, Anthony J. Tankard.

Publication

Halifax, N.S. : Atlantic Geoscience Society ; Calgary, Alta. : Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, [1987]

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Additional Authors

• Beaumont, Christopher.
• Tankard, A. J.
• Atlantic Geoscience Society.
• Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists

Description

vii, 527 p., [7] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps; 29 cm.

Series Statement

• CSPG memoir ; 12
• AGS special publication, 0832-7025 ; 5
• Publication / International Lithosphere Program ; no. 151

Uniform Title

• Memoir (Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists) ; 12.
• AGS special publication ; 5.
• Publication (International Lithosphere Program) ; no. 151.

Subject

• Sedimentary structures
• Sedimentation and deposition

Note

• "December 1987."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Heat flow, subsidence and crustal structure of the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean) : a quantitative discussion of the Classic Passive Margin Model / J. Burrus, F. Bessis and B. Doligez -- Labrador Basin : structural and stratigraphic style / H. R. Balkwill -- Thermal and subsidence history of the Labrador and West Greenland Continental Margins / D. R. Issler and C. Beaumont -- A regional seismic reflection profile in the Scotian Basin, Offshore Nova Scotia / O. R. Friedenreich -- Hydrocarbon generation and thermal evolution in parts of the Egersund Basin, Northern North Sea / U. Ritter [and others] -- Evolution of the Boston Basin : a sedimentological perspective / A. D. Socci and G. W. Smith -- Crustal geometry and extensional models for the Grand Banks, Eastern Canada : constraints from deep seismic reflection data / C. E. Keen [and others] -- Tectonic and structural framework of the Northeast Newfoundland Continental Margin / M. E. Enachescu -- The Bass, Gippsland and Otway Basins, Southeast Australia : a branched rift system formed by continental extension / M. A. Etheridge, J. C. Branson and P. G. Stuart-Smith -- Linked tectonics of the Northern North Sea Basins / A. D. Gibbs -- Early Mesozoic basin structure and tectonics of the Southeastern United States as revealed from Cocorp reflection data and the relation to Atlantic rifting / J. H. McBride, K. D. Nelson and L. D. Brown -- Geometric, thermal and isostatic consequences of detachments in continental lithosphere extension and basin formation / N. J. Kusznir, G. D. Karner and S. Egan -- Thermal-mechanical evolution of extensional basins : problems of non-unique interpretation / J. E. Huntoon and K. P. Furlong -- Rift-initiated Permian to early Cretaceous subsidence of the Sverdrup Basin / R. A. Stephenson [and others] -- Discrepancy between lower and upper crustal thinning / I. Moretti and B. Pinet -- Styles of continental rifting : results from dynamic models of lithospheric extension / J. Braun and C. Beaumont -- Intraplate stresses and apparent changes in sea level : the basins of Northwestern Europe / K. Lambeck, S. Cloetingh and H. McQueen -- The Sydney Basin of Atlantic Canada : an upper Paleozoic strike-slip basin in a collisional setting / M. R. Gibling, R. C. Boehner and B. R. Rust -- Geological constrants on the genesis of the Maritimes Basin, Atlantic Canada / S. R. McCutcheon and P. T. Robinson -- Stellarton Graben : an upper carboniferous pull-apart basin in Northern Nova Scotia / G. M. Yeo and G. Ruixiang -- Late Paleozoic sedimentation and basin development adjacent to the Cobequid Highlands Massif, Eastern Canada / R. J. Ryan [and others] -- Seismic stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the strike-slip Sackville Sub-Basin, New Brunswick / A. T. Martel -- A model for the evolution of hot (>200°C) overpressured brines under an evaporate seal : the Fundy/Magdalen Carboniferous Basin of Atlantic Canada and its associated Pb-Zn-Ba deposits / C. Ravenhurst and M. Zentilli -- Thermal regimes of small basins : effects of intrabasinal conductive and advective heat transport / L. A. Weir and K. P. Furlong -- Dextral transpression and late carboniferous sedimentation in the Fundy Coastal Zone of Southern New Brunswick / R. D. Nance -- Structural development within the Himalayan Foreland Fold-and-Thrust Belt of Pakistan / R. J. Lillie [and others] -- Geodynamic models of convergent margin tectonics : the Southern Canadian Cordillera and the Swiss Alps / G. S. Stockmal and C. Beaumont -- Geodynamic evolution of the Lower Paleozoic Central Appalachian Foreland Basin / G. G. Lash -- The Alleghanian Orogeny and its relationship to the evolution of the Eastern Interior, North America / C. Beaumont, G. M. Quinlan and J. Hamilton -- Analysis of temperatures and thermal processes in the Uinta Basin / S. D. Willett and D. S. Chapman -- Models of subsidence mechanisms in intracratonic basins, and their applicability to North American examples / G. Quinlan -- Paleozoic geology of the Hudson Platform / B. V. Sanford -- The tectonics and evolution of the Hudson Bay Region / M. M. Roksandić -- Subsidence and heat flow in intracontinental basins and passive margins / J.- C. Mareschal.

ISBN

0920230431

OCLC

• 17598542
• SCSB-10181037

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