Sedimentary Basin Evolution: Tectonics, Sedimentation and Architecture
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Palaeontology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2026 | Viewed by 783
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The interplay between tectonics and sedimentation dramatically affects the evolution of sedimentary basins that comprise the Earth's upper crust and shape its surface. These basins form in various tectonic settings, present amazing past surface landscapes through geological history, and record the dynamic processes that have modelled the basin architecture. Understanding the tectonic setting of sedimentary basins, involved sources, and provenance of sedimentary fill is of fundamental importance to reconstructing sedimentary environments and their links to paleogeography, subsequent orogenic build-up, and bulk evolution.
Recent advances in sedimentary petrology and geochemistry have provided critical insights for interpreting tectonic settings, revealing distinct paleoconditions of source regions, while analyzing fossil content and facies variations has helped improved our understanding of the relationships among stratigraphic units within sedimentary basins. Furthermore, the application of geochronologic techniques has contributed to unravelling the timing of depositional history in basin fills.
This Special Issue looks to compile multidisciplinary research investigating the complex inter-relationships between tectonics, sedimentation, sedimentary sources and their provenance, and basin architecture. We encourage contributions from all geoscience research fields that explore the interaction of sedimentary-basin-related processes across distinct geological settings and time scales. We also invite contributions on sedimentary processes and tectonic architectures of sedimentary basins that have impacts on natural resources, geohazards, and risks.
This Special Issue will focus on the following key themes and beyond:
- Tectonic settings and tectonic control of sedimentary basin formation.
- Paleontology, stratigraphy, and facies of basin sedimentary fill.
- Geochemistry of sedimentary/metasedimentary rocks, their sources, and their provenance.
- Depositional history through geological time derived from geochronology.
- Modelling of sedimentary basins.
- Implications of basin architecture on natural resources, geohazards, and risks.
Dr. Nikolay Bonev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sedimentary rocks
- stratigraphy
- tectonics
- geochronology
- geochemistry
- basin architecture
- basin evolution
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