Stratigraphic Evolution of Foreland Basins

Tulsa, Okla.: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 1995. First edition (unstated). Large red octavo, gilt to front board and spine, gilt illus to front board, v, 310 pages, b&w illustrations (some color), color maps included to rear pastedown; 29 cm. One small scuff to spine head edge, two small scuffs to spine foot edges, extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, faint crease to spine foot, extremely gentle bumping to top-rear corner, extremely light soiling to boards, bright pages, binding is tight, else Near Fine(+). Hardcover. ISBN: 1565760166

Geology, Science. Series: Special publication / SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), #52. Contents: Introduction. Stratigraphic evolution of foreland basins / Steven L. Dorobek and Gerald M. Ross -- I. Quantitative models of foreland basin evolution and stratigraphic development. Preliminary results from a planform kinematic model of Orogen evolution, surface processes and the development of clastic foreland basin stratigraphy / David D. Johnson and Christopher Beaumont. Implications of Orogenic wedge growth, intraplate stress variations and eustatic sea-level change for foreland basin stratigraphy--inferences from numerical modeling / Tim Peper, Ronald van Balen and Sierd Cloetingh. The Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico: flexural modeling and evidence for lithospheric heterogeneity across the marathon foreland / Kenn-ming Yang and Steven L. Dorobek -- II. Provenance studies in foreland basins. Provenance of mudstones from two Ordovician foreland basins in the Appalachians / C. Brannon Andersen. Provenance of the upper cretaceous nanaimo group, British Columbia: evidence from U-Pb analyses of detrital zircons / Peter S. Mustard, Randall R. Parrish, and Vicki McNicoll. Provenance of the Devonian clastic wedge of arctic Canada: evidence provided by detrital zircon ages / Vickie j. McNicoll . [and others] -- III. Regional studies of foreland basins. Chronostratigraphy and tectonic significance of lower cretaceous conglomerates in the foreland of central Wyoming / Michael T. May [and others]. Diachronous thrust loading and fault partitioning of the black warrior foreland basin within the Alabama recess of the late Paleozoic Appalachian-Ouachita thrust belt / William A. Thomas. Synorogenic carbonate platforms and reefs in foreland basins: controls on stratigraphic evolution and platform/reef morphology / Steven L. Dorobek. the permian basin of west Texas and New Mexico: tectonic history of a "composite" foreland basin and its effects on stratigraphic development / Kenn-Ming Yang and Steven Dorobek. Development of the Mississippian carbonate platform in southern Nevada and eastern California on the eastern margin of the antler foreland basin / Calvin H. Stevens, Darrel Klingman and Paul Belasky. The interplay of eustasty and lithospheric flexure in forming stratigraphic sequences in foreland setting: an example from the antler foreland, Nevada and Utah / Katherine A. Giles and William R. Dickinson. Cratonic-margin and Antler-age foreland basin strata (middle Devonian to lower carboniferous) of the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains and adjacent plains / Lauret E. Savoy and Eric W. Mountjoy. Upper Triassic-Jurassic foreland sequences of the ordos basin in China / Li Sitian, Yang Shigong, and Tom Jerzykiewicz. Tectonic and eustatic controls on the stratal architecture of mid-cretaceous stratigraphic sequences, central western interior foreland basin of North America / Michael H. Gardner. The stratigraphic history and tectonic history of the mid-cretaceous foreland basin of central Utah / Michael H. Gardner.