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Mesozoic rift basins of Yemen

Marine and Petroleum Geology, 1997
Abstract This special issue is the first compilation and review of the stratigraphy and basin evolution of the Mesozoic petroleum basins of Yemen. The volume arises from an international symposium on the ‘Sedimentation and Tectonics of Rift Basins of the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden area’ held at the University of Sana'a in September 1995. Papers relating to
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The Evolution of Small Rift Basins

Offshore Technology Conference, 1985
ABSTRACT The original McKenzie (1978) model for basin formation was formulated to explain the heat flow and subsidence at the center of broad regions of crystal and lithosphere thinning. The McKenzie model has been modified (Stickler, 1980) to account for the heat flow and subsidence n narrow rift basins where ...
W.E. Pitman, J.A. Andrews
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Petroleum systems in rift basins – a collective approach inSoutheast Asian basins

Petroleum Geoscience, 2007
This paper synthesizes some of the main conclusions reached in a recent regional review of the Tertiary basins of Southeast Asia, carried out by Shell. Four distinctive types of petroleum systems, correlating with the four main stages of basin evolution (early to late syn-rift and early to late post-rift), are developed widely in the basins.
Doust, H., Sumner, D.
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Architecture of Marine Rift-Basin Successions

AAPG Bulletin, 1998
Marine rift basins represent a continuum ranging from mixed nonmarine/marine through shallow marine to deep marine, or from partly emergent through partly submergent to completely submergent basin types. These rift basin types have strongly variable synrift sedimentary architectures because of temporal changes in relative sea level, accommodation ...
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General Levalle basin, Argentina: A frontier Lower Cretaceous rift basin

AAPG Bulletin, 2004
The General Levalle basin forms a long, narrow, and deep Early Cretaceous intracratonic rift in southern Crdoba province, Argentina. It trends approximately north-south for more than 150 km (93 mi), ranges from 5 to 50 km (3 to 31 mi) wide, and is more than 6500 m (21,325 ft) deep.
Robert E. Webster, Gualter A. Chebli, J. Fritz Fischer   +2 more
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Chapter 6 Rift-associated sedimentary basins

Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 2008
The warping of the mid-Tertiary land surface and the subsequent faulting gave rise to a series of half grabens. Due to the disruption of earlier river systems, inland drainage basins formed within the half grabens and, in these basins, lake sediments were deposited, often intercalated with lava flows and ash-fall deposits, the thickest sedimentary ...
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Rift Basins: Origin, History, and Distribution

Offshore Technology Conference, 1985
ABSTRACT Rifts are elongate depressions overlying places where the lithosphere has ruptured in extension. Where filled with sediment they may contain exploitable quantities of oil and gas. Because rifts form in a variety of tectonic settings, it is helpful to define the particular tectonic environment in which a ...
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Satpura Basin - An Example of Pre-Rift, Syn-Rift and Post-Rift Gondwana Sedimentation in India

Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2001
Abstract The Satpura basin, located in central India, is the westernmost exposed Gondwana basin. This basin is situated south of the Narmada-Son Geofracture (NSG) and north of the Betul-Chhindwara plateau. The basin is spindle-shaped with a length to breadth ratio of 4:1. The shape of the basin is governed by the intersection of three
James Peters, S.K. Singh
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Rift basins of the Long Island platform

Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1986
Four buried early Mesozoic rift basins on the Long Island platform region of the United States Atlantic continental margin were mapped, using seismic-reflection, magnetic, and gravity data. Low-angle normal border faults and high-angle cross faults control the structure of three of the basins, and some of these faults can be traced deep into the crust.
D. R. HUTCHINSON, K. D. KLITGORD, R. S. DETRICK   +2 more
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Chapter 5. Albertine Rift basin lakes

Geological Society, London, Memoirs
The Albertine Rift is dominated by Lakes Albert and Edward, which together represent two of the great rift lakes of East Africa. Rift basin lakes form one of the most obvious geomorphological features in an early continental rift basin, as crustal extension proceeds, causing the rift valley floor to subside and diverting the regional drainage pattern ...
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