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Piggyback Basins

Piggyback Basins is a sedimentary basin that forms atop an advancing thrust sheet within a thrust belt, distinguished by its position in front of a propagating thrust system and its deposition in response to localized subsidence caused by tectonic loading and crustal shortening.

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2017–2026

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Piggyback Basin

Parents

Publications

62

Sedimentary basins formed and carried piggyback on active thrust sheets

G. G. Ori, P. F. Friend · Geology · 1984 · 410 citations

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Foreland shortening and crustal balancing in the Andes at 30°S latitude

Richard W. Allmendinger, Diego F. Figueroa, D. B. Snyder et al. · Tectonics · 1990 · 278 citations

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Active thrust faulting offshore Boumerdes, Algeria, and its relations to the 2003 Mw 6.9 earthquake

Jacques Déverchère, K. Yelles, A. Domzig et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 2005 · 178 citations · Full text

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Tectono‐sedimentary evolution of the southern branch of the Western Tethys (Maghrebian Flysch Basin and Lucanian Ocean): consequences for Western Mediterranean geodynamics

Francesco Guerrera, Vincenzo Perrone, Mario Tramontana · Terra Nova · 2005 · 160 citations

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Contemporaneous thrusting and large‐scale rotations in the western Sicilian fold and thrust belt

John S. Oldow, James E T Channell, Raimondo Catalano et al. · Tectonics · 1990 · 132 citations

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Authors

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  1. CM
    C.K. Morley

    PTT Public Company Limited (Thailand), Thailand

    2 publications · 67 citations

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  2. DW
    Douglas W. Burbank

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    2 publications · 123 citations

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  3. TF
    Timothy F. Lawton

    New Mexico State University, United States

    2 publications · 68 citations

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  4. MW
    Michael Wagreich

    University of Vienna, Austria

    2 publications · 77 citations

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  5. NM
    Nadine McQuarrie

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    2 publications · 144 citations

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Institutions

119

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    16 publications

    1.6K citations

  2. Universidad de Granada

    Granada, Spain

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    277 citations

  3. IFP Énergies nouvelles

    Rueil-Malmaison, France

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    411 citations

  4. Geociencias Barcelona

    Barcelona, Spain

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    104 citations

  5. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    160 citations

  6. Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, Spain

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    195 citations

  7. Institut Français

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    186 citations

  8. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España

    Madrid, Spain

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    72 citations

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Venues

  1. Tectonics

    8 publications · 878 citations

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  2. Geological Society London Special Publications

    5 publications · 188 citations

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  3. Sedimentology

    4 publications · 261 citations

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  4. Journal of the Geological Society

    JGS · 4 publications · 137 citations

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  5. Basin Research

    4 publications · 268 citations

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