Sedimentary basins: evolution, facies, and sediment budget

Abstract

I Types of Sedimentary Basins.- 1 Basin Classification and Depositional Environments.- II Depositional Systems and Facies Models.- 2 Continental Sediments.- 3 Coastal and Shallow Sea Sediments (Including Carbonates).- 4 Sediments of Adjacent Seas and Estuaries.- 5 Oceanic Sediments.- 6 Special Depositional Environments and Sediments.- 7 Sequences, Minor Cycles, and Event Stratigraphy.- III Subsidence, Flux Rates, and Sediment Budget.- 8 Subsidence.- 9 Denudation: Solute Transport and Flux Rates of Terrigenous Sediment.- 10 Sedimentation Rates and Organic Matter in Various Depositional Environments.- 11 The Interplay Between Sediment Supply, Subsidence, and Basin Fill.- IV Basin Evolution.- 12 Basin Evolution and Sediments.- V Diagenesis and Fluid Flow.- 13 Mechanical and Chemical Diagenesis.- 14 Hydrocarbons and Coal.- References.