RAVI PRAKASH TIWARY

HRUDAYA RANJAN PANDA

VINIT KUMAR
Many different classification systems have been
proposed
Principal factors:
Position of the basin in relation to plate margins
Crustal/lithospheric substratum
Oceanic, continental crust
Type of plate boundary
In this text we essentially use the system described by
Mitchell and Reading, but add some minor
modifications.
• Divergent

 Convergent

 Transform

 Hybrid
 Divergent plate margin settings
 CONTINENTAL RIFT ZONES
 two associated basin types
 1. central rift graben basin
 2. rim basins

Examples
1. East Africa rift zone
2. Rio Grande rift; Rhine graben
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Divergent plate margin settings
Failed rifts and aulacogens – e.g North Sea basins, Europe; Gippsland Basin,
Bass Basin
Continental or interior sag
basins
Passive margin basin
Passive margin basins
 Subduction
 Trench basins
 forearc basins
 backarc basins
Subduction-related basins
Basins related to collision
Foreland basin
Subduction-related basins
Strike-slip basins
Strike-slip and wrench basins
Basin classification on the basis
of temporal relationship between
deposition and tectonics

• Post-depositional basins

• Syn-depositional basins

• Pre-depositional basins
Summary