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Marine Sedimentary Basins

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Active margin basins; Oceanic basins; Passive margin basins; Submarine basins

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Marine sedimentary basins are any modern basin that is currently below sea level and influenced by marine sedimentary processes and sedimentation. Many ancient marine sedimentary basins are now deformed and uplifted into modern, mountain chains as part of ongoing or ancient orogenic – or mountain-building – processes.

The modern marine sedimentary basins of the world’s ocean basins can be subdivided into continental shelves, slopes, rises, abyssal plains, and oceanic trenches in passive margin settings (Fig. 1). As these topics have been defined and discussed by other authors of the encyclopedia, I will focus on the origin of the main tectonic classes of marine sedimentary basins in active margin settings that include those produced in rift, collisional, subduction, and strike-slip environments, along with bolide impacts into marine environments (Fig. 1).

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  1. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 312 Science & Research 1, University of Houston, P.O. 5007, 77204, Houston, TX, USA

    Paul Mann

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  1. Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Jan Harff

  2. Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

    Martin Meschede

  3. Leibiniz Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Sven Petersen

  4. Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Lit c/o Helmholtz-Center for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany

    Jörn Thiede

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Mann, P. (2015). Marine Sedimentary Basins. In: Harff, J., Meschede, M., Petersen, S., Thiede, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6644-0_99-2

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