OCEANIC SAG BASIN

Presented By:
Muhammad Bilal
Ahsan Ali Khan
Muhammad Arsalan

Basin

Basin formed
on Oceanic
crust

Basin formed
on Continental
crust

Convergent
Boundary

Divergent
Boundary

Oceanic
Wrench

Oceanic
Fracture

Oceanic Sag

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Oceanic sag basins or nascent ocean basins occupy the area between a mid-oceanic
ridge, including its rise, and the outer edge of the transitional crust along a passive
continental margin.
They commonly accumulate deep-sea fan or basin plain sediments. Due to the
advanced cooling of the aging oceanic crust, subsidence is usually low, unless it is
activated by thick sedimentary loading near the continental margin.
Fault-bounded basins of limited extent are common in conjunction with the growth of
mid-oceanic ridges
Form large plains at 4 to 6.5 km below the sea level.

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Deep-sea basins or basin plains are the deepest parts of marine

environments except for the special features of deep-sea trenches (see
below).

Thick, ancient flysch sequences are mostly interpreted as depositions in

such basins.

Oceanic sag Basin deposits are mostly biogenic or chemically precipitated

and usually contain only very small proportions of terrigenous or
volcaniclastic materials. Although such limited sediment accumulations can
hardly be referred to as basin fills, they do constitute an important and
diagnostically significant part of larger marine depositional environments.

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Due to slow subsidence, the sediments of Oceanic sag basins tend to be deep marine.
The Atlantic ocean and the Arctic ocean are good examples of active, growing
oceanic basins
Sedimentary processes may fill the basins with a variety of siliclastic and carbonate
sediments
Sag basins are commonly circular to oval in shape and may have multiple histories of
basin subsidence.
They may form over older basins and inherit only some of the previously existing
structural grain.

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Conclusion

Basin Category Oceanic Sag Basin

Special Basin Type Nascent Ocean Basin (growing Ocean Basin)

Underlying Crust Oceanic

Style Of Tectonic Divergence

Basin Characteristics Large, asymmetric, slow subsidence

Not Bearing Hydrocarbon