Sentence examples for sedimentary basins from inspiring English sources

Worldwide, approximately 600 sedimentary basins are known to exist.

The geologic history of most sedimentary basins contains the prerequisites for the formation of stratigraphic traps.

Giant petroleum fields and significant petroleum-producing sedimentary basins are closely associated.

North America has many sedimentary basins, as shown in the map.

Other limestones were deposited as reefs along the outer margins of sedimentary basins.

Thus, in the sedimentary basins of the world, comparatively little oil is found below 5,000 metres.

Known world oil reserves are concentrated in a relatively small number of giant fields in a few sedimentary basins.

In most sedimentary basins the vertical potential (and sediment volume) available for gas generation exceeds that of oil.

The cycle may be repeated many times, which accounts for the numerous coal seams found in some sedimentary basins.

Telluric currents are often used by geophysicists to map subsurface structures, such as sedimentary basins, layered rocks, and faults.

Both of these phenomena produce temperatures much higher than those reached at depth in most sedimentary basins.