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foreland basin

TS Must Read paper – Foreland Basin Systems, DeCelles & Giles (1996)

The Must-read team February 28, 2022

Foreland Basin Systems, by DeCelles and Giles (1996), expands the concept of foreland basin into the more comprehensive and integrative concept of foreland basin systems. Foreland basin systems can be defined, as per this TS must-read paper, as compressional regions where various tectonic forces lead to flexural responses of a variable wavelength, which may in …[Read More]

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