Application of Thermochronology to Sedimentary Basins
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 542
Special Issue Editors
Interests: themochronology; fission tracks; thermal modeling; geomorphic evolution; passive margin
Interests: sedimentology; sedimentary basins; stratigraphy; geochronology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Geosciences aims to gather high-quality original research papers on the application of thermochronology to sedimentary basins.
Sedimentary basins, both modern and ancient, cover most of the Earth’s surface and are archives of relevant geologic information. Sedimentary strata reveal histories and rates of deposition and erosion, and the timing of basin formation and inversion. Within this framework, low temperature thermochronology provides constraints on the timing and duration of heating/cooling events that can be used to:
- constrain the thermal history of sedimentary basins;
- estimate the timing and duration of hydrocarbon production, expulsion, and migration;
- identify heat-flow changes that can be used to evaluate processes responsible for basin formation;
- constrain the timing and amount of basin inversion.
We would like to invite you to submit articles about your recent work on case studies dealing with the above topics.
Dr. Maria Laura Balestrieri
Prof. Marco Giovanni Malusà
Dr. Valerio Olivetti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Thermochronology
- Sedimentary basins
- Thermal history
- Burial
- Basin inversion
- Heat flow
- Hydrocarbon prospectivity
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