Sentence examples for maximum basin subsidence from inspiring English sources

The Turonian was also a time of maximum basin subsidence rates (Ojoh 1992) and eustatic sea levels leading to a connection between the equatorial atlantic (Petters 1980; Benkhelil et al 1989) and the Tethys through the Benue trough and the Termit basin (Petters 1980).

As rifting progressed, a considerable increase in the basin subsidence occurred and the maximum fault displacement led to a dustpan basin geometry, the coalescence of depocentres and extensive deep-water deposits.

The Anambra Basin-fill contains four third-order sedimentary cycles that document pulses of basin subsidence.

These controls are tectonism (basin subsidence and uplift), sea-level change, and sediment supply.

River captures and rapid valley incisions refer to present-day basin subsidence.

SP V shows upward-deepening facies changes from braided-stream to mouth-bar deposits, suggesting resumption of basin subsidence.

This contribution focuses on the e↵ect of laterally varying elastic thickness in the un- derlying lithosphere and thrust loading on foreland basin subsidence.

Lithospheric strength also exerts a profound control on the basin architecture and the surface expressions of extension, i.e., rift flank uplift and basin subsidence.

Each of the three lacustrine sequence architectures stands for a particular stage of basin fill and reflects variable rates of basin subsidence.

The study area corresponds to a sediment overfilled/balanced infill basin type that resulted from superposition of several rifting events characterized by high rates of basin subsidence.

Later, during the Miocene, basin subsidence was associated with intense tectonic activity of the SNAF and with the emplacement of ophiolites to the west.