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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)