Foreland Basins

Copyright © 1986 The International Association of Sedimentologists

Foreland Basins

Editor(s): P. A. Allen, P. Homewood

Published Online: 5 MAY 2009

Print ISBN: 9780632017324

Online ISBN: 9781444303810

DOI: 10.1002/9781444303810

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Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages I–1)

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      Colour Plates (pages c1–c2)

    1. Foreland Basins: An Introduction (pages 3–12)

      Philip A. Allen, Peter Homewood and Graham D. Williams

  4. Circum-Pacific and Western Americas

    1. Tectonic Controls of Foreland Basin Subsidence and Laramide Style Deformation, Western United States (pages 13–39)

      Timothy A. Cross

    2. The Stratigraphic and Structural Evolution of the Central and Eastern Magallanes Basin, Southern South America (pages 41–61)

      K. T. Biddle, M. A. Uliana, R. M. Mitchum, M. G. Fitzgerald and R. C. Wright

    3. Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy, Age and Tectonic Setting of Fluvial Sediments in an Eastern Andean Foreland Basin, San Juan Province, Argentina (pages 63–75)

      Noye M. Johnson, Teresa E. Jordan, Patricia A. Johnsson and Charles W. Naeser

    4. The Evolution of Foreland Basins to Steady State: Evidence from the Western Taiwan Foreland Basin (pages 77–90)

      Michael Covey

    5. Timor–Tanimbar Trough: The Foreland Basin of the Evolving Banda Orogen (pages 91–102)

      M. G. Audley-Charles

  5. Alpine Basins of Europe and Asia

    1. The Oligocene to Recent Foreland Basins of the Northern Apennines (pages 103–139)

      Franco Ricci Lucchi

    2. A Small Polyhistory Foreland Basin Evolving in a Context of Oblique Convergence: The Venetian Basin (Chattian to Recent, Southern Alps, Italy) (pages 141–168)

      F. Massari, P. Grandesso, C. Stefani and P. G. Jobstraibizer

    3. A Comparison between a Present-Day (Taranto Gulf) and a Miocene (Irpinian Basin) Foredeep of the Southern Apennines (Italy) (pages 169–182)

      Tullio Pescatore and Maria Rosaria Senatore

    4. Plio–Pleistocene Sedimentation in the Apenninic–Adriatic Foredeep (Central Adriatic Sea, Italy) (pages 183–198)

      Gian Gabriele Ori, Marco Roveri and Fabio Vannoni

    5. Dynamics of the Molasse Basin of Western Switzerland (pages 199–217)

      P. Homewood, P. A. Allen and G. D. Williams

    6. Evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin in the Central Alps (pages 219–228)

      O. Adrian Pfiffner

    7. Thrust Belt Development in the Eastern Pyrenees and Related Depositional Sequences in the Southern Foreland Basin (pages 229–246)

      C. Puigdefàbregas, J. A. Muñoz and M. Marzo

    8. Thrust Tectonic Controls on Miocene Alluvial Distribution Patterns, Southern Pyrenees (pages 247–258)

      J. P. P. Hirst and G. J. Nichols

    9. Syntectonic Intraformational Unconformities in Alluvial Fan Deposits, Eastern Ebro Basin Margins (NE Spain) (pages 259–271)

      Pere Anadón, Lluís Cabrera, Ferran Colombo, Mariano Marzo and Oriol Riba

    10. Late Cenozoic Tectonics and Sedimentation in the North-Western Himalayan Foredeep: I. Thrust Ramping and Associated Deformation in the Potwar Region (pages 273–291)

      Gary D. Johnson, Robert G. H. Raynolds and Douglas W. Burbank

    11. Late Cenozoic Tectonics and Sedimentation in the North-Western Himalayan Foredeep: II. Eastern Limb of the Northwest Syntaxis and Regional Synthesis (pages 293–306)

      Douglas W. Burbank, Robert G. H. Raynolds and Gary D. Johnson

  6. Palaeozoic of North America

    1. Progressive Filling of a Confined Middle Ordovician Foreland Basin Associated with the Taconic Orogeny, Quebec, Canada (pages 307–325)

      R. N. Hiscott, K. T. Pickering and D. R. Beeden

    2. Evolution from Passive Margin to Foreland Basin: The Atoka Formation of the Arkoma Basin, South-Central U.S.A. (pages 327–345)

      David W. Houseknecht

    3. Sedimentary-Tectonic Development of the Marathon and Val Verde Basins, West Texas, U.S.A.: A Permo–Carboniferous Migrating Foredeep (pages 347–368)

      Dirck E. Wuellner, Lee R. Lehtonen and W. C. James

    4. On the Depositional Response to Thrusting and Lithospheric Flexure: Examples from the Appalachian and Rocky Mountain Basins (pages 369–392)

      Anthony J. Tankard

  7. Petrography and Stratigraphic Techniques

    1. Sedimentary ‘Signatures’ of Foreland Basin Assemblages: Real or Counterfeit? (pages 393–410)

      Frederic L. Schwab

    2. Compositional Trends within a Clastic Wedge Adjacent to a Fold-Thrust Belt: Indianola Group, Central Utah, U.S.A. (pages 411–423)

      Timothy F. Lawton

    3. Provenance Modelling as a Technique for Analysing Source Terrane Evolution and Controls on Foreland Sedimentation (pages 425–436)

      S. A. Graham, R. B. Tolson, P. G. Decelles, R. V. Ingersoll, E. Bargar, M. Caldwell, W. Cavazza, D. P. Edwards, M. F. Follo, J. F. Handschy, L. Lemke, I. Moxon, R. Rice, G. A. Smith and J. White

    4. Reconstruction of Patterns of Differential Subsidence Using an Episodic Stratigraphic Model (pages 437–443)

      E. J. Anderson, Peter W. Goodwin and Peter T. Goodmann

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      Index (pages 445–453)

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