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Exam Short answer questions Diagram interpretation Some multiple choice Material from discussion sections will be included Lab material will not be covered (although diagrams may be used) Powerpoint presentations at /~laurel/204/ TECTONIC BASINS The sedimentary record of tectonic processes CONVERGENT SETTINGS Thrust belt typically propagates into foreland basin, moving depocenter in the direction of thrust motion Piggyback Basin: basins that are on the hanging wall of a thrust fault and move with the hanging wall. Sediments evolve from fine-grained turbidites to shallow water continental seds over time CONVERGENT SETTINGS Intracratonic Basin: large-scale basins far from mountain belts that form very wide, gentle synclines. Commonly large but not very deep Locations of intracratonic basins worldwide Characterized by basins separated by arches or domes. Generally middle Cambrian or younger seds deposited on Precambrian basement. Most seds marine, deposited by epeiric seas (i.e., where ocean transgressed on continent). Deepest parts of basins continued to receive sediments during marine regressions. TRANSFORM SETTINGS Strike-slip fault = a fault on which the movement is parallel to fault’s strike Basins form where irregularities in fault system cause depocenters to form locally Distinctive in that they are not regional in extent Fill with material sourced locally and from plate that is ‘passing by’ Basin formation in strike-slip TRANSFORM SETTINGS Pull-apart basins - caused by releasing step or dilational jog in fault system Strike-slip basins form in transtensional regimes and are usually relatively small but also deep; they are commonly filled with coarse facies (e.g., alluvial fans) adjacent to lacustrine or marine deposits Examples: Salton Sea, California; Ridge basin, California; Dead Sea, Israel 3 simple types of transform margin San Andreas fault system Alpine fault continental trench-trench