Basin Analysis

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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Companion website details -- Preface to the third edition -- PART 1: The foundations of sedimentary basins -- CHAPTER ONE: Basins in their geodynamic environment -- Summary -- 1.1 Introduction and rationale -- 1.2 Compositional zonation of the Earth -- 1.2.1 Oceanic crust -- 1.2.2 Continental crust -- 1.2.3 Mantle -- 1.3 Rheological zonation of the Earth -- 1.3.1 Lithosphere -- 1.3.2 Sub-lithospheric mantle -- 1.4 Geodynamic background -- 1.4.1 Plate tectonics, seismicity and deformation -- 1.4.2 The geoid -- 1.4.3 Topography and isostasy -- 1.4.4 Heat flow -- 1.4.5 Cycles of plate reorganisation -- 1.5 Classification schemes of sedimentary basins -- 1.5.1 Basin-forming mechanisms -- CHAPTER TWO: The physical state of the lithosphere -- Summary -- 2.1 Stress and strain -- 2.1.1 Stresses in the lithosphere -- 2.1.2 Strain in the lithosphere -- 2.1.3 Linear elasticity -- 2.1.4 Flexure in two dimensions -- 2.1.5 Flexural isostasy -- 2.1.6 Effects of temperature and pressure on rock density -- 2.2 Heat flow -- 2.2.1 Fundamentals -- 2.2.2 The geotherm -- 2.2.3 Radiogenic heat production -- 2.2.4 Effect of erosion and sediment blanketing on the geotherm -- 2.2.5 Transient effects of erosion and deposition on the continental geotherm -- 2.2.6 Effect of variable thermal conductivity -- 2.2.7 Time-dependent heat conduction: the case of cooling oceanic lithosphere -- 2.2.8 Convection, the adiabat and mantle viscosity -- 2.3 Rock rheology and lithospheric strength profiles -- 2.3.1 Fundamentals on constitutive laws -- 2.3.2 Rheology of the mantle -- 2.3.3 Rheology of the continental crust -- 2.3.4 Strength profiles of the lithosphere -- PART 2: The mechanics of sedimentary basin formation -- CHAPTER THREE: Basins due to lithospheric stretching -- Summary -- 3.1 Introduction

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