- 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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initially restricted to
fluvial sandstone, but
later expanded to
other depocentres during deposition of
fluvial and
lacustrine sediments. Tuff and volcanolithic...
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thought to be
entirely Pliocene to
recent in age.
There are two main
depocentres in the
basin at the
northern and
southern end,
separated by an intrabasinal...
- Australia, some 700 km (435 mi)
north of Adelaide. The
shallow lake is the
depocentre of the vast
endorheic Lake Eyre basin, and
contains the
lowest natural...
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resulted in the
formation of
depocentres with the
northeast Sydney Basin with best
preserved marine fossils.
These depocentres filled with
pyroclastic and...
- two
distinct areas of
sediment ac****ulation,
suggesting two
separate depocentres filled from
different source regions during the Sinemurian, with the...
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Basin was
characterised by
thermal subsidence and
generated restricted depocentres with
relatively uniform water depths,
ranging from 600 to 950 metres...
- such as
steeply dipping to
vertical basins, deep and
narrow asymmetric depocentres,
upward branching complex fault patterns and
contemporaneous normal and...
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debouched onto the
seafloor and
pooled in a second-order sub-basin's
depocentre,
precipitating a
stratiform m****ive
sulfide layer from 3 to 8 m thick...
- to
Paleocene that
locally modified the
existing basins and
formed new
depocentres such as the
Foinaven Sub-basin. At the end of the Paleocene, the area...
