- Look up
depocenter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
depocenter or
depocentre in
geology is the part of a
sedimentary basin where a
particular rock...
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between Australian and Antarctica. The
basin includes five
significant depocenters. The
Inner Otway Basin,
Torquay Sub-basin,
Morum Sub-basin,
Nelson Sub-basin...
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basin margins, to more
localized platform development flanking the
depocenters (Sinemurian).
Normal faulting and
block tilting increased notably during...
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faults partitioned the
basin into
regions of fault-controlled
uplift and
depocenters. The
Appalachian basin,
during the
Middle Devonian and
Early Mississippian...
- way to the
North Yellow Sea and
South Yellow Sea, and
formed a
Distal Depocenter around the
Shandong Peninsula. The
upper reaches of the
Yellow River constitute...
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Ayeyarwady River mouths. In contrast, a
major mud
wedge with a
distal depocenter, up to 60
metres (200 ft) in thickness, has been
deposited seaward in...
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volcanic deposits, up to ~6,000
metres (3.7 mi)
thick in some fault-bounded
depocenters. The
Cenozoic deposits have gas-prone Type III and II kerogen, with up...
- than the
present day
basin and had two
different 20–50 km wide
depocenters.
These depocenters,
controlled by
north and
south dipping faults, crop out near...
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sequence boundaries are
marked by
systematic shifting of
sandstone depocenters in
response to
episodic thrusting events over time. As
plate convergence...
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Ayeyarwady River mouths. In contrast, a
major mud
wedge with a
distal depocenter, up to 60 m in thickness, has been
deposited seaward in the Gulf of Martaban...
