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Sedimentary Basins

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Definition

Sedimentary basins are regions of prolonged subsidence of the Earth’s surface that provide the accommodation space for mineral and organic material (Allen and Allen 2013). These deposits – the sedimentary rocks – are the record of the past geological history including tectonic events, climatic conditions, changes in sea level, and other environmental modifications. In addition, sedimentary basins are long-lived, low-temperature geo-reactors in which the accumulated material experiences a variety of transformations (Bjorlykke 2010; Littke et al. 2008; Roure et al. 2009; Welte et al. 1997). As a result of these processes, basins contain our resources of fossil fuels, groundwater, and inorganic commodities. Moreover, they are important reservoirs of heat and provide repositories for different socioeconomically relevant fluids such as CO2, H2, and CH4.

Basin Types

Basins can be classified in terms of their plate-tectonic setting. The plate-tectonic Wilson cycle (Fig. 1)...

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Scheck-Wenderoth, M. (2020). Sedimentary Basins. In: Gupta, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_216-1

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