Foreland Basins (Special Publication 8 of the IAS)

by Philip A. Allen and P.E. Allen

The outcome of a symposium held in Fribourg, Switzerland, this book fulfils two aims. Firstly, it represents a collection of case-studies covering a wide range of basin types and tectonic and stratigraphic settings. Secondly, it highlights a number of specific themes such as the history of subsidence and its relation to orogenesis, the stratigraphic architecture of the basin fill and the petrographic signature of foreland basin deposits. The text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0632017325
• ISBN13: 9780632017324
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 453 Pages