Download Table 7-1 Basin classifications

Table 7-1. Basin classifications.
Klein (1991)
Einsele, 2000
Ingersoll (1988)
Tectonic
setting
Basin type
Basin category
Basin type
Basin category
Tectonic setting
Plate interior
Cratonic basin
Continental or
interior sag basin
Epicontinental basins,
intracontinental basins
(on continental crust)
Intracratonic
basins
Formed within continental
interior
Passive margin
Rift basin
Aulocogen
Flexure basin
Continental or
interior fracture
basin
Graben structures, rift
valleys and rift zones,
aulocogens (on
continental crust)
Continental rift
basins
Narrow, elongate basins within
continental interior
Active margin
Trench slope basin
Forearc basin
Interarc basin
Backarc basin
Basins on passive
continental
margins, margin
sag basin
Tensional –rifted basins,
tension-sheared basins,
sunk margin basins (on
transitional crust)
Passive margin
basins
Large sedimentary
accumulations
Transform
margin
Pull-apart basin
Transpressional basin
Oceanic basin
Nascent ocean basin
(growing oceanic
basins)
Forearc, interarc,
and backarc
basins
Formed at active subducting
margins, associated with
volcanic arcs
Collision
margin
Foreland basin
Superposed or collage
basin
Basins related to
subduction
Deep-sea trenches (on
oceanic crust)
Forearc basins, backarc
basins, interarc basins
(on transitional oceanic
crust)
Foreland basins
Occur in collision zones as
elongate depressions adjacent
to actively forming mountain
belts
Margin
independent
Polyhistory basins –
successor basins,
resurgent basins
Basins related to
collision
Remnant basins (on
oceanic crust)
Foreland basins,
retroarc basins, broken
foreland basins (on
continental crust)
Terrane related basins
(on oceanic crust)
Pull-apart basins
Form in areas undergoing
transform, strike-slip tectonics
Strike-slip/wrench
basins
Pull-apart basins
(transtensional) and
transpressional basins
(on continental and/or
oceanic crust)