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Thomas, William A., George E. Gehrels, Kurt E. Sundell, and Mariah C. Romero. "Detrital-zircon analyses, provenance, and late Paleozoic sediment dispersal in the context of tectonic evolution of the Ouachita orogen." Geosphere 17, no. 4 (May 14, 2020): 1214–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/ges02288.1.

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Abstract New analyses for U-Pb ages and εHft values, along with previously published U-Pb ages, from Mississippian–Permian sandstones in synorogenic clastic wedges of the Ouachita foreland and nearby intracratonic basins support new interpretations of provenance and sediment dispersal along the southern Midcontinent of North America. Recently published U-Pb and Hf data from the Marathon foreland confirm a provenance in the accreted Coahuila terrane, which has distinctive Amazonia/Gondwana characteristics. Data from Pennsylvanian–Permian sandstones in the Fort Worth basin, along the southern arm of the Ouachita thrust belt, are nearly identical to those from the Marathon foreland, strongly indicating the same or a similar provenance. The accreted Sabine terrane, which is documented by geophysical data, is in close proximity to the Coahuila terrane, suggesting the two are parts of an originally larger Gondwanan terrane. The available data suggest that the Sabine terrane is a Gondwanan terrane that was the provenance of the detritus in the Fort Worth basin. Detrital-zircon data from Permian sandstones in the intracratonic Anadarko basin are very similar to those from the Fort Worth basin and Marathon foreland, indicating sediment dispersal from the Coahuila and/or Sabine terranes within the Ouachita orogen cratonward from the immediate forelands onto the southern craton. Similar, previously published data from the Permian basin suggest widespread distribution from the Ouachita orogen. In contrast to the other basins along the Ouachita-Marathon foreland, the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian sandstones in the Arkoma basin contain a more diverse distribution of detrital-zircon ages, indicating mixed dispersal pathways of sediment from multiple provenances. Some of the Arkoma sandstones have U-Pb age distributions like those of the Fort Worth and Marathon forelands. In contrast, other sandstones, especially those with paleocurrent and paleogeographic indicators of southward progradation of depositional systems onto the northern distal shelf of the Arkoma basin, have U-Pb age distributions and εHft values like those of the “Appalachian signature.” The combined data suggest a mixture of detritus from the proximal Sabine terrane/Ouachita orogenic belt with detritus routed through the Appalachian basin via the southern Illinois basin to the distal Arkoma basin. The Arkoma basin evidently marks the southwestern extent of Appalachian-derived detritus along the Ouachita-Marathon foreland and the transition southwestward to overfilled basins that spread detritus onto the southern craton from the Ouachita-Marathon orogen, including accreted Gondwanan terranes.
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DeCelles, Peter G., and Katherine A. Giles. "Foreland basin systems." Basin Research 8, no. 2 (June 1996): 105–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2117.1996.01491.x.

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Zhang, Hong. "Accumulation Models of the Natural Gas in the Foreland Basins of China and their Physical Simulation Experiment." Advanced Materials Research 233-235 (May 2011): 2812–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.233-235.2812.

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The paper chooses foreland basin as its research object. after summarizing the accumulation characteristics of the different phases and different parts of them, the common models of the whole foreland basin are given and the physical simulation experiments are carried out. It shows that the foreland basins experience three phases of evolution. Phase 1 is the period that the source rock and structure oil and gas traps form. Phase 2 is the period that multi-cycle reservoir and lithologic oil and gas pool form. phase 3 is the period that foreland uplift belt and fault anticline pool form. Then a foreland basins has three different belts including of thrust belt, foredeep and foreland slope belt, foreland uplift belt, and the belts have different accumulation models. With regard to the hydrocarbon accumulation period of the foreland basin, the thrust belt have precedence to other belt. foredeep and foreland slope belt forms the secondary pools. Foreland uplift belt accumulates hydrocarbon very quickly.
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Räsänen, Matti, Ron Neller, Jukka Salo, and Högne Jungner. "Recent and ancient fluvial deposition systems in the Amazonian foreland basin, Peru." Geological Magazine 129, no. 3 (May 1992): 293–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800019233.

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AbstractStill active Sub-Andean foreland deformation is suggested to have syndepositionally modified the fluvial depositional environments in the Peruvian Amazonian foreland basin throughout Neogene-Quaternary time. Modern fluvial aggradation continues to proceed on a large scale (c. 120 000 km2) in two differing depositional systems. Firstly, various multistoried floodbasin deposits are derived from the meandering and anastomosing rivers within the subsiding intraforeland basins. Secondly, in the northern part of the Pastaza-Marañon basin the largest known Holocene alluvial fan-like formation (c. 60 000 km2) composed of reworked, volcaniclastic debris derived from active Ecuadorian volcanoes, has been identified.The widespread, poorly known, dissected surface alluvium (terra firme) which covers the main part of the Peruvian Amazonian foreland basin shows further evidence of long-term foreland deformation, and terraces indicate both the effects of tectonism and Pleistocene climatic oscillations. In northern Peru, the surface alluvium was deposited by a Tertiary fluvial system with palaeocurrents to the west and northwest into the Andean foreland basin. In southern Peru, the respective surficial alluvium was part of a post-Miocene fluvial system flowing northeast into the main Amazon basin. Both systems were gradually abandoned when the eastward migrating Andean foreland deformation led to the more distinctive partitioning of the intraforeland basins, and the modern drainage system was created.
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Lawton, Timothy F., Jeffrey M. Amato, Sarah E. K. Machin, John C. Gilbert, and Spencer G. Lucas. "Transition from Late Jurassic rifting to middle Cretaceous dynamic foreland, southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico." GSA Bulletin 132, no. 11-12 (April 8, 2020): 2489–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/b35433.1.

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Abstract Subsidence history and sandstone provenance of the Bisbee basin of southwestern New Mexico, southern Arizona, and northern Sonora, Mexico, demonstrate basin evolution from an array of Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous rift basins to a partitioned middle Cretaceous retroarc foreland basin. The foreland basin contained persistent depocenters that were inherited from the rift basin array and determined patterns of Albian–early Cenomanian sediment routing. Upper Jurassic and Valanginian–Aptian strata were deposited in three narrow extensional basins, termed the Altar-Cucurpe, Huachuca, and Bootheel basins. Initially rapid Late Jurassic subsidence in the basins slowed in the Early Cretaceous, then increased again from mid-Albian through middle Cenomanian time, marking an episode of foreland subsidence. Sandstone composition and detrital zircon provenance indicate different sediment sources in the three basins and demonstrate their continued persistence as depocenters during Albian foreland basin development. Late Jurassic basins received sediment from a nearby magmatic arc that migrated westward with time. Following a 10–15 m.y. depositional hiatus, an Early Cretaceous continental margin arc supplied sediment to the Altar-Cucurpe basin in Sonora as early as ca. 136 Ma, but local sedimentary and basement sources dominated the Huachuca basin of southern Arizona until catchment extension tapped the arc source at ca. 123 Ma. The Bootheel basin of southwestern New Mexico received sediment only from local basement and recycled sedimentary sources with no contemporary arc source evident. During renewed Albian–Cenomanian subsidence, the arc continued to supply volcanic-lithic sand to the Altar-Cucurpe basin, which by then was the foredeep of the foreland basin. Sandstone of the Bootheel basin is more quartzose than the Altar-Cucurpe basin, but uncommon sandstone beds contain neovolcanic lithic fragments and young zircon grains that were transported to the basin as airborne ash. Latest Albian–early Cenomanian U-Pb tuff ages, detrital zircon maximum depositional ages ranging from ca. 102 Ma to 98 Ma, and ammonite fossils all demonstrate equivalence of middle Cretaceous proximal foreland strata of the U.S.-Mexico border region with distal back-bulge strata of the Cordilleran foreland basin. Marine strata buried a former rift shoulder in southwestern New Mexico during late Albian to earliest Cenomanian time (ca. 105–100 Ma), prior to widespread transgression in central New Mexico (ca. 98 Ma). Lateral stratigraphic continuity across the former rift shoulder likely resulted from regional dynamic subsidence following late Albian collision of the Guerrero composite volcanic terrane with Mexico and emplacement of the Farallon slab beneath the U.S.–Mexico border region. Inferred dynamic subsidence in the foreland of southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico was likely augmented in Sonora by flexural subsidence adjacent to an incipient thrust load driven by collision of the Guerrero superterrane.
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Miall, A. D. "Siwalik foreland basin of Himalaya." Sedimentary Geology 99, no. 1 (September 1995): 63–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0037-0738(95)90021-7.

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Gül, Murat, Kemal Gürbüz, and Bryan T. Cronin. "Irregular plate boundary controls on Foreland Basin sedimentation (Miocene, Kahramanmaraş Foreland Basin, SE Turkey)." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 111 (November 2015): 804–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.07.018.

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Yin, Shaoru, Guangfa Zhong, Yiqun Guo, and Liaoliang Wang. "Seismic stratigraphy and tectono-sedimentary framework of the Pliocene to recent Taixinan foreland basin in the northeastern continental margin, South China Sea." Interpretation 4, no. 3 (August 1, 2016): SP21—SP32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/int-2015-0177.1.

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The Pliocene to recent Taixinan basin is a unique foreland basin built on the northeastern part of the northern passive margin of the South China Sea (SCS). We have used multichannel seismic profiles tied to well controls from ODP Leg 184 to investigate the tectonic and sedimentary characteristics of the foreland basin. We defined three seismic sequences, dated respectively to the Pliocene (5.33–2.5 Ma), early Quaternary (2.5–1.0 Ma), and late Quaternary (1.0 Ma–present). They represent three stages of evolution of the foreland basin. We have recognized seven types of seismic facies, which are parallel-to-subparallel, progradational, fill-type, divergent mounded, wavy, lenticular, and chaotic facies, and are interpreted as hemipelagic deposits, deltas, submarine canyon fills, levees, sediment waves, submarine fans, and mass transport deposits, respectively. Seismic facies analysis indicates that sedimentation within the foreland basin has been dominated by turbidity currents and the other gravity transport processes. Tectonically, the foreland basin consists of three structural zones: an eastern wedge-top, a central foredeep, and a western forebulge zones. Different from a typical foreland basin, however, the basin extends in the northeast–southwest direction, which is oblique to the north–south-striking Taiwan orogenic zone, but parallel to the northern SCS passive margin, where the basin is hosted, suggesting that the foreland basin is significantly influenced by the development of the passive margin. In addition, the basin displays a distinctive inverted-triangle-shaped downstream-converging sediment dispersal system instead of ideal transverse or longitudinal drainage systems common in a typical foreland basin. We have suggested that the Pliocene to recent Taixinan basin is an atypical foreland basin, which was formed as a flexural response of tectonic loading by the Taiwan orogenic wedge, but strongly affected by its passive continental margin background.
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Erdős, Zoltán, Ritske S. Huismans, and Peter van der Beek. "Control of increased sedimentation on orogenic fold-and-thrust belt structure – insights into the evolution of the Western Alps." Solid Earth 10, no. 2 (March 13, 2019): 391–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-10-391-2019.

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Abstract. We use two-dimensional thermomechanical models to investigate the potential role of rapid filling of foreland basins in the development of orogenic foreland fold-and-thrust belts. We focus on the extensively studied example of the Western European Alps, where a sudden increase in foreland sedimentation rate during the mid-Oligocene is well documented. Our model results indicate that such an increase in sedimentation rate will temporarily disrupt the formation of an otherwise regular, outward-propagating basement thrust-sheet sequence. The frontal basement thrust active at the time of a sudden increase in sedimentation rate remains active for a longer time and accommodates more shortening than the previous thrusts. As the propagation of deformation into the foreland fold-and-thrust belt is strongly connected to basement deformation, this transient phase appears as a period of slow migration of the distal edge of foreland deformation. The predicted pattern of foreland-basin and basement thrust-front propagation is strikingly similar to that observed in the North Alpine Foreland Basin and provides an explanation for the coeval mid-Oligocene filling of the Swiss Molasse Basin, due to increased sediment input from the Alpine orogen, and a marked decrease in thrust-front propagation rate. We also compare our results to predictions from critical-taper theory, and we conclude that they are broadly consistent even though critical-taper theory cannot be used to predict the timing and location of the formation of new basement thrusts when sedimentation is included. The evolution scenario explored here is common in orogenic foreland basins; hence, our results have broad implications for orogenic belts other than the Western Alps.
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de Leeuw, Arjan, Stephen J. Vincent, Anton Matoshko, Andrei Matoshko, Marius Stoica, and Igor Nicoara. "Late Miocene sediment delivery from the axial drainage system of the East Carpathian foreland basin to the Black Sea." Geology 48, no. 8 (May 12, 2020): 761–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g47318.1.

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Abstract We describe a late Miocene to early Pliocene axial drainage system in the East Carpathian foreland, which was an important sediment supplier to the Black Sea and the Dacian Basin. Its existence explains the striking progradation of the northwest Black Sea shelf prior to the onset of sediment supply from the continental-scale Danube River in the late Pliocene to Pleistocene. This axial drainage system evolved due to the diachronous along-strike evolution of the Carpathians and their foreland; continental collision, overfilling, slab breakoff, and subsequent exhumation of the foreland occurred earlier in the West Carpathians than in the East Carpathians. After overfilling of the western foreland, excess sediment was transferred along the basin axis, giving rise to a 300-km-wide by 800-km-long, southeast-prograding river-shelf-slope system with a sediment flux of ∼12 × 103 km3/m.y. Such late-stage axial sediment systems often develop in foreland basins, in particular, where orogenesis is diachronous along strike. Substantial lateral sediment transport thus needs to be taken into account, even though evidence of these axial systems is often eroded following slab breakoff and inversion of their foreland basins.
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Sissingh, W. "Kinematic sequence stratigraphy of the European Cenozoic Rift System and Alpine Foreland Basin: correlation with Mediterranean and Atlantic plate-boundary events." Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 85, no. 2 (June 2006): 77–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600077921.

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AbstractA review of the sequence stratigraphic development of the Tertiary basins of the North and West Alpine Foreland domains shows that their structural and depositional history was episodically affected by brief tectonic phases. These were associated with intermittent deformation events induced by the collisional convergence and compressional coupling of the Apulian and Iberian microplates with the European Plate. The plate kinematics-related episodicity was essentially isochronously recorded in the basin fills of the Alpine Foreland region. These are generally correlative with changes in eustatic sea level. The ensuing correlative successions of so-called Cenozoic Rift and Foredeep (CRF) sequences and phases can be traced throughout the European Cenozoic Rift System and Alpine Foreland Basin. Their temporal correlation indicates that, apparently, the changes in the plate collision-related stress regime of the Alpine Foreland were repeatedly accompanied by coeval changes in eustatic sea level. To test and substantiate the validity of this inferred causal relationship between intraplate deposition, plate kinematics and eustacy, the tectono-sedimentary evolution of the basins of the Mediterranean plate-boundary zone has been analysed in conjunction with a review of the plate-boundary events in the North Atlantic. Within the uncertainty range of available datings, synchroneity could thus be demonstrated for the punctuated tectonostratigraphic development of basins of the western Mediterranean (comprising the Liguro-Provençal Basin, Valencia Trough, Sardinia Rift and Tyrrhenian Basin), the Apenninic-Calabrian Arc, the Betic domain (including the Alboran Basin) and the North and West Alpine Foreland regions. Similar temporal correlations of plate tectonicsrelated events near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the North Atlantic and tectonostratigraphic sequences and phases of the Alpino-Pyrenean Foreland basins are further evidence of a common causal mechanism. The driving mechanisms appear to have been the northward drift of Africa and the resulting mechanical coupling of Apulia and Iberia with the southern passive margin of Europe, as well as the stepwise opening of the North Atlantic and accompanying episodic plate re-organisations of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Horton, Brian K., Kurt N. Constenius, and Peter G. DeCelles. "Tectonic control on coarse-grained foreland-basin sequences: An example from the Cordilleran foreland basin, Utah." Geology 32, no. 7 (2004): 637. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g20407.1.

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Kneller, B. C., L. M. King, and A. M. Bell. "Foreland basin development and tectonics on the northwest margin of eastern Avalonia." Geological Magazine 130, no. 5 (September 1993): 691–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800021002.

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AbstractThe early Palaeozoic convergence of Avalonia and Laurentia created a foreland basin at the suture zone of the former lapetus Ocean. Sedimentological and stratigraphic evidence of shallowing and contemporaneous shortening suggests that the southern part of the basin (the Windermere Group) became detached from its basement in the late Ludlow, and began to invert. The detachment beneath the basin rooted into a northwest-dipping mid-crustal thrust system. Contemporaneous uplift to the north of the late Silurian basin involved shortening of the Avalonian foreland basement by thrusting. Basin inversion occurred ahead of a southeastward-advancing mountain front. We postulate a foreland (southeast) prograding sequence of thrusting through the Ludlow in the Lake District. The basin continued to migrate onto the Avalonian foreland through the early Devonian, ahead of an advancing orogenic wedge, finally coming to a stop in the Emsian.
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SOTIROPOULOS, SPILIOS, EVANGELOS KAMBERIS, MARIA V. TRIANTAPHYLLOU, and THEODOR DOUTSOS. "Thrust sequences in the central part of the External Hellenides." Geological Magazine 140, no. 6 (November 2003): 661–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756803008367.

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The model of a foreland propagating sequence already presented for the External Hellenides is significantly modified in this paper. New data are used, including structural maps, cross-sections, stratigraphic determinations and seismic profiles. In general, thrusts formed a foreland propagating sequence but they acted simultaneously for a long period of time. Thus, during the Middle Eocene the Pindos thrust resulted in the formation of the Ionian–Gavrovo foreland and acted in tandem with the newly formed Gavrovo thrust within the basin until the Late Oligocene. The Gavrovo thrust consists of segments, showing that out-of-sequence thrusting was important. Thrust nucleation and propagation history is strongly influenced by normal faults formed in the forebulge region of the Ionian–Gavrovo foreland basin. Shortening rates within the Gavrovo–Ionian foreland are low, about 1 mm/year. Although thrust load played an important role in the formation of this basin, the additional load of 3500 m thick clastics in the basin enhanced subsidence and underthrusting.
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AVRAMIDIS, PAVLOS, ABRAHAM ZELILIDIS, and NIKOLAOS KONTOPOULOS. "Thrust dissection control of deep-water clastic dispersal patterns in the Klematia–Paramythia foreland basin, western Greece." Geological Magazine 137, no. 6 (November 2000): 667–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800004684.

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The Klematia–Paramythia basin is an internal part of the middle Ionian zone of the Hellenide orogen in western Greece. It consists of Middle Eocene to Late Miocene turbidites, up to 3300 m thick, which were deposited in a series of submarine fans. Field studies suggest that the configuration and the depositional environments of the basin were affected by two tectonic phases. During the first tectonic phase, in Middle Eocene to Late Oligocene times, a foreland basin was formed west of the Pindos Thrust front. During the second tectonic phase, in the Early Miocene, the Ionian zone (a part of the foreland basin) was subdivided by internal thrusting into three sub-basins (internal, middle and external) and changed to a complex type foreland basin. Comparison of the type and facies associations of the turbidite deposits that accumulated within the basin suggests that these two tectonic phases had a significant effect on sedimentary dispersal patterns. During the first tectonic phase in the Klematia–Paramythia basin (when it was part of the foreland basin), fine-grained turbidites, up to 1050 m thick, accumulated on the distal part of a submarine fan. The lower part (900 m thick) of these deposits consists of thin to thick interbedded sandstone/mudstone beds which are interpreted as lobes and lobe-fringe (outer-fan) deposits. The upper parts (150 m thick) of these deposits are composed of very thin to thin siltstone/mudstone beds, representing a basin plain environment. During the second tectonic phase, sediments up to 2260 m thick were deposited in the Klematia–Paramythia basin. These deposits are interpreted as lobes and lobe-fringe (outer-fan) fine-grained turbidites in the central part of the basin, channel and interchannel deposits (inner-fan) in some areas of the periphery of the basin, and shelf deposits in the northern and southern terminations of the basin.
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Konstantopoulos, Panagiotis A., Angelos G. Maravelis, and Avraam Zelilidis. "The implication of transfer faults in foreland basin evolution: application on Pindos foreland basin, West Peloponnesus, Greece." Terra Nova 25, no. 4 (March 29, 2013): 323–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ter.12039.

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Hoareau, Guilhem, Francis Odonne, Daniel Garcia, Elie-Jean Debroas, Christophe Monnin, Michel Dubois, and Jean-Luc Potdevin. "Burial Diagenesis of the Eocene Sobrarbe Delta (Ainsa Basin, Spain) Inferred From Dolomitic Concretions." Journal of Sedimentary Research 85, no. 9 (September 1, 2015): 1037–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2015.65.

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Abstract: Little attention has been focused on the burial diagenesis of deltas deposited on active foreland-basin margins, where tectonics is likely to strongly impact fluid–rock interactions. A petrographic, geochemical, and microthermometric study of several fractured dolomite concretions and enclosing prodelta marls provides insights into the evolution of burial diagenesis in the Eocene Sobrarbe deltaic complex (Ainsa Basin, Spain), and more generally, on the paleohydrology of the South Pyrenean foreland basin. Shallow burial diagenesis was controlled by microbial activity in marine-derived porewaters. Microbial sulfate reduction was first responsible for the formation of pyrite and early calcite, followed by the growth of dolomite concretions during methanogenesis. Subsequent diagenesis was limited to temperatures and depth of less than approximately 75°C and 2 km, respectively. Diagenesis was recorded in porous bioturbation traces and septarian fractures found inside dolomite concretions, as well as in tectonic shear fractures. Neomorphic tabular barite, found only in the bioturbation traces, is interpreted to have formed early in marine-derived porewaters. Septarian fractures were then filled by Fe-rich calcite and centimeter-size celestine. Stable isotopes indicate that calcite probably formed in meteoric-derived waters coming from the overlying fluvial delta plain. The sulfur isotope composition of celestine is compatible with precipitation in waters of mixed parentage, but the exact origin of dissolved sulfate remains poorly constrained. In tectonic fractures, celestine precipitated coevally with calcite displaying evidence of strong fluid–rock interaction. Dissolved sulfate may have migrated to the fractures during active tectonics from the late Eocene to the Oligocene. The paragenesis and the proposed paleohydrologic model are similar to those previously described for other deltaic systems deposited in active foreland basins, including the South Pyrenean foreland basin. These features point to common diagenetic processes in syntectonic foreland-basin deltas, involving both meteoric and marine fluid sources. Similar to passive margin settings, early diagenesis appears to be controlled mainly by relative variations of sea level, whereas during further burial, the development of permeable tectonic fractures is likely to facilitate the influx of basinal or continental waters into fine slope deposits, impacting the diagenetic record. These results emphasize the importance of fracture development in the fluid-flow regime of syntectonic foreland-basin deltas. They demonstrate the necessity to take this parameter into account in fluid-flow modeling of foreland-basin margins.
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Boettcher, D. J., M. Thomas, M. G. Hrudey, D. J. Lewis, C. O'Brien, B. Oz, D. Repol, and R. Yuan. "The Western Canada Foreland Basin: a basin-centred gas system." Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series 7, no. 1 (2010): 1099–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/0071099.

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Elliott, L. G. "POST-CARBONIFEROUS TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA." APPEA Journal 33, no. 1 (1993): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj92017.

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Analysis of seismic data from the Bowen and Surat Basins has yielded valuable information on the Permian and Triassic evolution of eastern Australia. When combined with seismic data from the Clarence-Moreton and Maryborough Basins, a new understanding of the post-Triassic evolution of the region can be gained, with widespread implications for other eastern Australian basins.The Early Permian-Middle Triassic Bowen-Sydney Basin is a foreland basin system extending 2000 km in preserved section from Nowra in the south to Collinsville in the north. Permian outcrops as far north as Cape York were probably part of the same system prior to deformation and erosion. The basins in the Bowen-Sydney system were linked by similar structural and stratigraphic patterns controlled by a magmatic arc to the east. The Esk Trough and associated remnant basins east of the Taroom Trough were part of the Middle Triassic foreland sequence. The structural style in the system is dominated by thrusting from the east. An Early Triassic deformation is shown to be the most important, rather than the previously believed Middle Triassic event.The overlying Jurassic-Cretaceous foreland system, which included the Surat, Maryborough and Clarence-Moreton Basins, were once joined behind another magmatic arc, east of the Triassic arc position. A major mid-Cretaceous deformation is documented which fragmented the Jurassic-Cretaceous foreland basin into a number of remnant basins prior to the opening of the Tasman Sea in the Cenomanian. The dominant structural style is again thrusting from the east. Given the severity of the deformation, its effects are expected to be present in continental margin basins around Australia.
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Sickmann, Zachary T., Theresa M. Schwartz, Matthew A. Malkowski, Stephen C. Dobbs, and Stephan A. Graham. "Interpreting large detrital geochronology data sets in retroarc foreland basins: An example from the Magallanes-Austral Basin, southernmost Patagonia." Lithosphere 11, no. 5 (July 12, 2019): 620–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/l1060.1.

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Abstract The Magallanes-Austral retroarc foreland basin of southernmost South America presents an excellent setting in which to examine interpretive methods for large detrital zircon data sets. The source regions for retroarc foreland basins generally, and the Magallanes-Austral Basin specifically, can be broadly divided into (1) the magmatic arc, (2) the fold-and-thrust belt, and (3) sources around the periphery of foreland flexural subsidence. In this study, we used an extensive detrital zircon data set (30 new, 87 previously published samples) that is complemented by a large modal provenance data set of 183 sandstone petrography samples (32 new, 151 previously published) and rare earth element geochemical analyses (130 previously published samples) to compare the results of empirical (multidimensional scaling) and interpretive (age binning based on source regions) treatments of detrital zircon data, ultimately to interpret the detailed evolution of sediment dispersal patterns and their tectonic controls in the Magallanes-Austral Basin. Detrital zircon sample groupings based on both a priori age binning and multidimensional scaling are required to maximize the potential of the Magallanes-Austral Basin data set. Multidimensional scaling results are sensitive to differences in major unimodal arc-related U-Pb detrital zircon ages and less sensitive to differences in multimodal, thrust belt–related age peaks. These sensitivities complicate basin-scale interpretations when data from poorly understood, less densely sampled sectors are compared to data from better-understood, more densely sampled sectors. Source region age binning alleviates these biases and compares well with multidimensional scaling results when samples from the less well-understood southern basin sector are excluded. Sample groupings generated by both multidimensional scaling and interpretive methods are also compatible with compositional provenance data. Together, this integration of provenance data and methods facilitates a detailed interpretation of sediment dispersal patterns and their tectonic controls for the Late Cretaceous to Eocene fill of the Magallanes-Austral retroarc foreland basin. We interpret that provenance signatures and dispersal patterns during the retroarc foreland phase were fundamentally controlled by conditions set by a predecessor extensional basin phase, including (1) variable magnitude of extension with latitude, (2) the composition of lithologies emplaced on the antecedent western flank, and (3) long-lasting structural discontinuities associated with early rifting that may have partitioned dispersal systems or controlled the location of long-lived drainage networks.
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Hoorn;, C., C. G. M. Paxton, W. G. R. Crampton, P. Burgess;, L. G. Marshall, J. G. Lundberg;, M. E. R s nen, and A. M. Linna. "Miocene Deposits in the Amazonian Foreland Basin." Science 273, no. 5271 (July 5, 1996): 122–0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5271.122.

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Paxton, C. G. M., W. G. R. Crampton, and P. Burgess. "Miocene Deposits in the Amazonian Foreland Basin." Science 273, no. 5271 (July 5, 1996): 123a. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5271.123a.

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Marshall, L. G., and J. G. Lundberg. "Miocene Deposits in the Amazonian Foreland Basin." Science 273, no. 5271 (July 5, 1996): 123b—124b. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5271.123b.

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Patnaik, Rajeev, R. S. Loyal, and B. P. Singh. "Emergence and evolution of Himalayan Foreland Basin." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 162 (August 2018): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.05.015.

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Kumar, Rohtash. "Late Cenozoic Himalayan foreland basin: Sedimentologic attributes." Episodes 43, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 417–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020026.

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Castle, James W. "Foreland-basin sequence response to collisional tectonism." Geological Society of America Bulletin 113, no. 7 (July 2001): 801–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<0801:fbsrtc>2.0.co;2.

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Pirouz, Mortaza, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Adriano Gualandi, Jamshid Hassanzadeh, and Pietro Sternai. "Flexural bending of the Zagros foreland basin." Geophysical Journal International 210, no. 3 (June 9, 2017): 1659–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx252.

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Miall, Andrew D. "Initiation of the Western Interior foreland basin." Geology 37, no. 4 (April 2009): 383–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/focus042009.1.

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Pelletier, Jon D. "Erosion-rate determination from foreland basin geometry." Geology 35, no. 1 (2007): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g22651a.1.

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Singh, B. P. "Evolution of the Western Himalayan Foreland Basin." Journal of the Geological Society of India 91, no. 5 (May 2018): 644. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12594-018-0918-6.

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Lyu, Chengfu, Xixin Wang, Xuesong Lu, Qianshan Zhou, Ying Zhang, Zhaotong Sun, Liming Xiao, and Xin Liu. "Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Generation Using Structural and Thermal Modeling in the Thrust Belt of Kuqa Foreland Basin, NW China." Geofluids 2020 (December 18, 2020): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8894030.

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The Kuqa Basin is a typical foreland basin in northwest China, characterized by compressive foreland fold-and-thrust belts and a regionally distributed huge salt layer. A large number of overthrust faults, fault-related folds, and salt-related structures are formed on the thrust belt due to strong compression and structural deformation, causing difficulty in simulation of the basin. In this study, modeling of the thermal history of the complicated compressional structural profiles in the Kuqa foreland basin was successfully conducted based on the advanced “Block” function introduced by the IES PetroMod software and the latest geological interpretation results. In contrast to methods used in previous studies, our method comprehensively evaluates the influence of overthrusting, a large thick salt layer with low thermal conductivity, fast deposition, or denudation on the thermal evolution history. The results demonstrate that the hydrocarbon generation center of the Kuqa foreland basin is in the deep layers of the Kelasu thrust belt and not in the Baicheng Sag center, which is buried the deepest. A surprising result was drawn about the center of hydrocarbon generation in the Kuqa foreland basin, which, although not the deepest in Baicheng Sag, is the deepest part of the Kelasu thrust Belt. In terms of the maturity of the source rock, there are obvious temporal and spatial differences between the different structural belts in the Kuqa foreland basin, such as the early maturation of source rocks and the curbing of uplift and hydrocarbon generation in the piedmont zone. In the Kelasu thrust belt, the source rock made an early development into the low mature-mature stage and subsequently rapidly grew into a high-over mature stage. In contrast, the source rock was immature at an early stage and subsequently grew into a low mature-mature stage in the Baicheng Sag–South slope belt. The time sequence of the thermal evolution of source rocks and structural trap formation and their matching determines the different accumulation processes and oil and gas compositions in the different structural belts of the Kuqa foreland basin. The matching of the multistage tectonic activity and hydrocarbon generation determines the characteristics of the multistage oil and gas accumulation, with the late accumulation being dominant. The effective stacking of the gas generation center, subsalt structural traps, reservoir facies of fine quality, and huge, thick salt caprocks creates uniquely favorable geological conditions for gas enrichment in the Kelasu foreland thrust belt.
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Soto-Kerans, Graham M., Daniel F. Stockli, Xavier Janson, Timothy F. Lawton, and Jacob A. Covault. "Orogen proximal sedimentation in the Permian foreland basin." Geosphere 16, no. 2 (January 6, 2020): 567–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/ges02108.1.

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Abstract The sedimentary fill of peripheral foreland basins has the potential to preserve a record of the processes of ocean closure and continental collision, as well as the long-term (i.e., 107–108 yr) sediment-routing evolution associated with these processes; however, the detrital record of these deep-time tectonic processes and the sedimentary response have rarely been documented during the final stages of supercontinent assembly. The stratigraphy within the southern margin of the Delaware Basin and Marathon fold and thrust belt preserves a record of the Carboniferous–Permian Pangean continental assembly, culminating in the formation of the Delaware and Midland foreland basins of North America. Here, we use 1721 new detrital zircon (DZ) U-Pb ages from 13 stratigraphic samples within the Marathon fold and thrust belt and Glass Mountains of West Texas in order to evaluate the provenance and sediment-routing evolution of the southern, orogen-proximal region of this foreland basin system. Among these new DZ data, 85 core-rim age relationships record multi-stage crystallization related to magmatic or metamorphic events in sediment source areas, further constraining source terranes and sediment routing. Within samples, a lack of Neoproterozoic–Cambrian zircon grains in the pre-orogenic Mississippian Tesnus Formation and subsequent appearance of this zircon age group in the syn-orogenic Pennsylvanian Haymond Formation point toward initial basin inversion and the uplift and exhumation of volcanic units related to Rodinian rifting. Moreover, an upsection decrease in Grenvillian (ca. 1300–920 Ma) and an increase in Paleozoic zircons denote a progressive provenance shift from that of dominantly orogenic highland sources to that of sediment sources deeper in the Gondwanan hinterland during tectonic stabilization. Detrital zircon core-rim age relationships of ca. 1770 Ma cores with ca. 600–300 Ma rims indicate Amazonian cores with peri-Gondwanan or Pan-African rims, Grenvillian cores with ca. 580 Ma rims are correlative with Pan-African volcanism or the ca. 780–560 Ma volcanics along the rifted Laurentian margin, and Paleozoic core-rim age relationships are likely indicative of volcanic arc activity within peri-Gondwana, Coahuila, or Oaxaquia. Our results suggest dominant sediment delivery to the Marathon region from the nearby southern orogenic highland; less sediment was delivered from the axial portion of the Ouachita or Appalachian regions suggesting that this area of the basin was not affected by a transcontinental drainage. The provenance evolution of sediment provides insights into how continental collision directs the dispersal and deposition of sediment in the Permian Basin and analogous foreland basins.
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Garfunkel, Z., and R. O. Greiling. "A thin orogenic wedge upon thick foreland lithosphere and the missing foreland basin." Geologische Rundschau 87, no. 3 (December 14, 1998): 314–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s005310050212.

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O'LEARY, N., N. WHITE, S. TULL, V. BASHILOV, V. KUPRIN, L. NATAPOV, and D. MACDONALD. "Evolution of the Timan–Pechora and South Barents Sea basins." Geological Magazine 141, no. 2 (March 2004): 141–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756804008908.

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We have analysed 129 stratigraphic sections from the Timan–Pechora basin, from its adjacent continental shelf and from the South Barents Sea basin, in order to determine whether existing models of extensional sedimentary basin formation can be applied to these intracratonic basins or whether new mechanisms of formation need to be invoked. The subsidence history of each section has been calculated using standard backstripping techniques. An inverse model, based on finite-duration lithospheric stretching, has then been used to calculate the distribution of strain rate as a function of time required to fit each subsidence profile. Results demonstrate an excellent fit between theory and observation. By combining our analysis with independent field-based and geophysical observations, we show that the Timan–Pechora basin underwent at least four phases of mild lithospheric stretching during the Phanerozoic (β<1.2). These phases occurred in Ordovician, Late Ordovician–Silurian, Middle–Late Devonian and Permian–Early Triassic times. Growth on normal faults, episodes of volcanic activity and regional considerations provide corroborative support for the existence of all four phases. Although less well constrained, subsidence data from the South Barents Sea basin are consistent with a similar Early–Middle Palaeozoic history. The main difference is that Permian–Early Triassic extension is substantially greater than that seen onshore. This similarity implies structural connectivity throughout their respective evolutions. Finally, subsidence modelling demonstrates that rapid foreland basin formation, associated with the Uralian Orogeny, was initiated in Permo-Triassic times and is confined to the eastern margin of the Timan–Pechora basin. Coeval foreland subsidence does not occur on the eastern margin of the South Barents Sea basin, supporting the allochthonous nature of Novaya Zemlya. The most puzzling result is the existence of simultaneous lithospheric extension and foreland loading in Permian–Early Triassic times. This juxtaposition is most clearly seen within the Timan–Pechora basin itself and suggests that convective drawdown may play a role in foreland basin formation.
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Baral, Upendra, Ding Lin, Khum N. Paudayal, Deepak Chamlagain, and Qasim Muhammad. "Erosional unroofing of Himalaya in far western Nepal: a detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and petrography study." Journal of Nepal Geological Society 53 (December 31, 2017): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jngs.v53i0.23795.

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Since the collision between the Indian and Asian plates, several peripheral foreland basin were formed, and started to accumulate the sediments from the hinterland Himalayan orogeny. The sediments deposited at the northern tip of the Greater India have been uplifted, exhumed after the activation of several south propagating thrusts and finally transported to the foreland basin by southward flowing fluvial system. We present petrography and detrital zircon dating for the interpretation of possible provenance of the Neogene Siwalik foreland basin sediments in far western Nepal. The QFL ternary plot for provenance analysis show a 'recycled orogeny' field for the studied sandstone samples, indicating Tethys Himalaya, Higher Himalaya and Lesser Himalaya as the source of the foreland basin sediments. The detrital zircon U-Pb ages of the studied samples have shown that during the time of deposition there was dominant numbers of detritus supplied from the Tethys and upper Lesser Himalaya. Subsequently the amount of the Higher and Lower Lesser Himalaya increased during the time of deposition of the Middle Siwalik.
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Karakitsios, V., M. Roveri, S. Lugli, V. Manzi, R. Gennari, A. Antonarakou, M. Triantaphyllou, K. Agiadi, and G. Kontakiotis. "Remarks on the Messinian evaporites of Zakynthos Island (Io- nian Sea, Eastern Mediterranean)." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 47, no. 1 (December 21, 2016): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.10915.

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Detailed mapping of the Neogene deposits on Zakynthos Island shows that the Messinian primary evaporite basins, formed over Ionian basement, are delimited by the westernmost outcrop of the Triassic evaporitic diapirs, located west of the Kalamaki-Argasi Messinian gypsum unit. The post-Miocene external Ionian thrust is emplaced west of the Triassic diapirs. Planktonic foraminifera biostratigraphy indicates that primary evaporite accumulation took place probably during the first stage of the Messinian salinity crisis (5.96-5.60 Ma), in shallower parts of a foreland basin, formed over the Pre-Apulian and the Ionian zone basement. Establishment of these depositional environments, before the Ionian thrust emplacement, was probably due to the particularities of the foreland basin, which extended from the external Ionian to the internal Pre-Apulian zone. Field observations, borehole data and an onshore seismic profile show that the Neogene sediments over the Pre-Apulian basement correspond to the foredeep through forebulge domain of the foreland basin, as it is documented from their spatial thickness distribution. In contrast, the Neogene sediments over the Ionian basement correspond to the wedge top of the foreland basin, which was less subsiding, as it is deduced by their reduced thickness. This lower subsidence rate was the result of the concurrent diapiric movements of the Ionian Triassic evaporites. In Agios Sostis area, located over Pre-Apulian basement, the Neogene sequence is intercalated by decametre-thick resedimented blocks consisting of shallow water selenite. To the southeast, this mass-wasting Messinian gypsum passes to mainly gypsum turbidite. In Kalamaki-Argasi area, located over Ionian basement, the shallow water environment led to the deposition of the observed primary gypsum. Erosion of the primary gypsum of both forebulge and wedge top supplied the foreland basin’s depocenter with gypsum turbidites.
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Cant, Douglas J., and Glen S. Stockmal. "The Alberta foreland basin: relationship between stratigraphy and Cordilleran terrane-accretion events." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26, no. 10 (October 1, 1989): 1964–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e89-166.

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A foreland-basin sequence resulting from accretion of a terrane to a continental passive margin ideally should be unconformity bounded, with a shallowing-upward pattern, like the classic Flysch to Molasse sequence of Alpine foreland basins. The basal unconformity is cut as the peripheral bulge associated with lithospheric flexure migrates cratonward ahead of the basin and the advancing overthrusts. The shallowing occurs because sediment supply at first is low – early stages of accretion near the continental slope generate little or no topography above sea level; later stages result in significant tectonic uplift, and much sediment is shed into the foreland, filling the basin. The upper unconformity is cut as lithospheric bending stresses are relaxed following overthrusting, and reduction of the flexural load on the lithosphere through erosion and (or) tectonic denudation of the overthrusts causes regional uplift or basin "rebound". Actual sequences show differences from this idealized version in that (i) basal unconformities may not develop under conditions of high eustatic sea level; and (ii) they may not shallow upward in all cases. These differences can occur because later terranes that accrete onto the seaward side of a previously accreted terrane may simply push it farther onboard, thus initiating sediment supply as rapidly as the load-induced subsidence. Also, in this way, a small terrane can influence the filling of a foreland basin that is more than one "lithospheric flexural half-wavelength" away from the site of accretion.The stratigraphy of the Alberta basin has been divided after comparison with the idealized sequence resulting from an individual accretion event. The six clastic wedges recognized (Fernie–Kootenay, Mannville, Dun vegan, Belly River, Edmonton, and Paskapoo) show a temporal correlation with the times of accretion of terranes (Intermontane superterrane, Bridge River, Cascadia, Insular superterrane, Pacific Rim – Chugach, and Olympic, respectively) in the Cordillera. Therefore, the stratigraphy of the foreland basin may be best interpreted in terms of Cordilleran tectonics rather than sea-level fluctuations. Eustatic sea-level variations are believed to affect the internal stratigraphy and sedimentology of some clastic wedges and are responsible for the deposition of some thin units, but they appear to operate on time scales that differ from those of the clastic wedges identified here.
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Stern, T. A., and F. J. Davey. "Deep seismic expression of a foreland basin: Taranaki basin, New Zealand." Geology 18, no. 10 (1990): 979. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1990)018<0979:dseoaf>2.3.co;2.

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Catuneanu, Octavian, and Arthur R. Sweet. "Maastrichtian-Paleocene foreland-basin stratigraphies, western Canada: a reciprocal sequence architecture." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 36, no. 5 (May 1, 1999): 685–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e98-018.

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Palynological and magnetostratigraphic chronostratigraphic correlations of lower Maastrichtian to Paleocene strata along an east-west Western Canada Basin transect allow for the recognition of a reciprocal sequence architecture in nonmarine strata. Reference sections include three Canadian Continental Drilling Program Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Project core holes and outcrops in Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and north-central Montana. The spatial and temporal position of the third-order sequences provides evidence for the correlation of proximal sector regional disconformities and sedimentary wedges with distal sector sedimentary wedges and regional disconformities, respectively. The boundary between the two sectors is represented by a hingeline, which separates the foreland-basin "syncline" from the "peripheral bulge." The stratigraphies defined by reciprocal third-order sequences are complicated by fourth-order boundaries, developed within proximal sedimentary wedges and with no correlative distal strata. These results support tectonic control on foreland-basin sedimentation. A model for interpreting the various types of sequences in terms of foreland-basin evolution, vertical tectonics, and orogenic cycles is provided. It is argued that nonmarine sequence boundaries (times of maximum uplift in the foreland region) may be expressed as disconformities, incised valleys, top of mature paleosol levels, or base of fluvial channels, whereas nonmarine equivalents of marine maximum flooding surfaces (times of maximum basinal subsidence) may be indicated by extensive coal seams and (or) lacustrine sediments.
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PIROUZ, MORTAZA, GUY SIMPSON, ABBAS BAHROUDI, and ALI AZHDARI. "Neogene sediments and modern depositional environments of the Zagros foreland basin system." Geological Magazine 148, no. 5-6 (June 1, 2011): 838–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756811000392.

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AbstractA sedimentological investigation of the Neogene deposits of the Zagros foreland basin in SW Iran reveals a continuous and largely gradational passage from supratidal and sabkha sediments at the base (represented by the Gachsaran Formation) to carbonates and marine marls (Mishan Formation with basal Guri carbonate member) followed by coastal plain and meandering river deposits (Agha Jari Formation) and finally to braided river gravel sheets (Bakhtyari Formation). This vertical succession is interpreted to represent the southward migration of foreland basin depozones (from distal foredeep and foredeep to distal wedge-top and proximal wedge-top, respectively) as the Zagros fold–thrust belt migrated progressively southward towards the Arabian foreland. This vertical succession bears a striking similarity to modern depositional environments and sedimentary deposits observed in the Zagros region today, where one passes from mainly braided rivers in the Zagros Mountains to meandering rivers close to the coast, to shallow marine clastic sediments along the northern part of the Persian Gulf and finally to carbonate ramp and sabkha deposits along the southeastern coast of the Persian Gulf. This link between the Neogene succession and the modern-day depositional environments strongly suggests that the major Neogene formations of the Zagros foreland basin are strongly diachronous (as shown recently by others) and have active modern-day equivalents.
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Gupta, S., and P. A. Allen. "Implications of foreland paleotopography for stratigraphic development in the Eocene distal Alpine foreland basin." Geological Society of America Bulletin 112, no. 4 (April 1, 2000): 515–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2000)112<515:iofpfs>2.0.co;2.

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Huang, Hanyu, Dengfa He, Di Li, and Yingqiang Li. "Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of Paleogene deposits in the southwestern Sichuan foreland basin, China: Constraints on basin-mountain evolution along the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau." GSA Bulletin 132, no. 3-4 (June 17, 2019): 668–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/b35211.1.

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Abstract The tectonic setting of the southwestern Sichuan foreland basin, China, changed rapidly during the Paleogene period, and records from this period may provide crucial information about the formation and tectonic processes that affected the Sichuan Basin. To constrain the provenance and to reconstruct the paleogeography of the Paleogene successions, we conducted a detailed analysis of the petrology, geochronology, and sedimentary facies of rocks from the southwestern Sichuan foreland basin. The detrital components of the three analyzed sandstone samples indicate moderately to highly mature sediment that was primarily derived from a recycled orogen provenance. Five major age populations were identified in the U-Pb age spectra: Neoarchean to Siderian (2524–2469 Ma and 2019–1703 Ma), Neoproterozoic (Tonian to Cryogenian, 946–653 Ma), Ordovician to Carboniferous (Katian to lower Pennsylvanian, 448–321 Ma), and Carboniferous to Triassic (306–201 Ma). Each of these age populations corresponds to one or several potential sources around the southwestern Sichuan foreland basin. A multidimensional scaling analysis indicated that the Paleogene zircons were mainly derived from recycled sediments of the Songpan-Ganzi terrane and the Sichuan Basin, with minor input from the Yidun terrane, Kangdian terrane, Qinling orogenic belt, and Jiangnan-Xuefeng orogenic belt. More specifically, the sediment supply from the Songpan-Ganzi terrane to the foreland basin decreased significantly from the Mingshan stage to the Lushan stage, and the Sichuan Basin simultaneously became the most important source area. In addition, there is a high correlation between the detrital zircon U-Pb age spectrum of the southwestern Sichuan Basin and that of the Xichang Basin, which may suggest that a wider and unified Paleo-Yangtze Basin existed during the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene.
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Vakalas, I., G. Ananiadis, N. Kontopoulos, K. K. Stoykova, and A. Zelilidis. "AGE DETERMINATION AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION OF PINDOS FORELAND BASIN BASED ON CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 36, no. 2 (July 23, 2018): 864. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.16834.

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The study area is part of the Pindos foreland (Underhill, 1985). Pindos foreland is a tertiary turbiditic foreland basin fill trending parallel to the external Hellenides and occupies Gavrovo and Ionian isopic zones (Aubouin, 1959). The age of Pindos foreland sediments is still a matter of discussion. B.P. (1971) proposed an early Miocene to middle Miocene age, explaining the presence of Oligocene fauna as a product of large scale erosion and reworking of older sediments during Miocene. IGSR&IFP(1966) suggested a late Eocene to early Miocene age for the basin fill while Fleury (1980), Leigh (1991), Wilpshaar (1995), Bellas (1997) assigned an Oligocene age. Avramidis et al (1999) proposes a middle Eocene to early Miocene age assessment, using nannofosil zones from three studied cross sections in the Klematia-Paramythia basin (middle Ionian zone). The determination of the sediment ages was based on the study of calcareous nannofossils, which came from almost 120 samples covering 11 geological cross sections. The nannofosil marker species that were found in the samples were classified using the biozones proposed by Martini in 1971. According to the age assessments arose from the studied samples, clastic sedimentation in the study area began in the Middle Eocene, with small differences among the basin. The end of clastic sedimentation seems to be at different times in different parts of the basin.
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Gayer, Rodney A., and Reinhard O. Greiling. "Caledonian nappe geometry in north-central Sweden and basin evolution on the Baltoscandian margin." Geological Magazine 126, no. 5 (September 1989): 499–513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800022822.

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AbstractStructural analysis of the Lower Allochthon in the north-central Scandinavian Caledonides has allowed the construction of restorable cross-sections consistent with the development of a foreland-propagating linked thrust system. The internal geometry of an antiformal stack, the Njakafjäll duplex, within the Lower Allochthon demonstrates tectonic shortening of c. 50% and suggests an overall predeformational width for the Lower Allochthon in this area of at least c. 130 km, and possibly considerably greater if the buried trailing edge of the Lower Allochthon lies in a comparable position to that farther south in Tröndelag. These results, combined with a stratigraphic analysis of the imbricates within the Lower Allochthon and of the adjoining Autochthon and Middle Allochthon, indicate the development, from Proterozoic through Cambrian times, of two sedimentary basins on the c. 200 km wide continental margin of Baltica bordering the Iapetus Ocean. The basins were separated by a region of basement relief, the Børgefjell domain, above which a reduced sequence of Vendian to Cambrian rocks accumulated. This Børgefjell basement high, and the similar Njakafjäll basement high to the east, subsequently became the sites of antiformal stack development. It is argued that the frequent incorporation of basement into the thrust sheets, together with the thin sedimentary fill of these basins, compared with the much greater fill in basins to the south in Jämtland and to the north of Finnmark, implies major palaeogeographic changes along the Baltoscandian margin, possibly related to early rift geometries. The apparent lack of subsequent foreland basin development in north-central Scandinavia compared with areas to the south may indicate a deeper level of thrust detachment beneath the Middle Allochthon to the north, such that any foreland basin sediments have been removed in the hangingwall and subsequently eroded. An alternative possibility is a primary absence of foreland basin development that may relate to a differing response to thrust loading by continental lithosphere which had been variably thinned during the earlier rift regime.
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Mars, J. C., and W. A. Thomas. "Sequential filling of a late Paleozoic foreland basin." Journal of Sedimentary Research 69, no. 6 (November 1, 1999): 1191–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.69.1191.

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T. Lin, Andrew. "Sedimentation in the late Cenozoic Taiwan foreland basin." Journal of the Sedimentological Society of Japan 71, no. 3 (2012): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.4096/jssj.71.172.

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Mitra, S., Sribharath M. Kainkaryam, Amit Padhi, S. S. Rai, and S. N. Bhattacharya. "The Himalayan foreland basin crust and upper mantle." Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 184, no. 1-2 (January 2011): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2010.10.009.

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Rasanen, M. E., and A. M. Linna. "Response: Miocene Deposits in the Amazonian Foreland Basin." Science 273, no. 5271 (July 5, 1996): 124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5271.124.

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Najman, Yani, Kit Johnson, Nicola White, and Grahame Oliver. "Evolution of the Himalayan foreland basin, NW India." Basin Research 16, no. 1 (March 2004): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2117.2004.00223.x.

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Chapman, James B., and Peter G. DeCelles. "Foreland basin stratigraphic control on thrust belt evolution." Geology 43, no. 7 (July 2015): 579–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g36597.1.

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