long enough, the basin is called a sag basin. Examples of sag basins are the regions along passive continental margins, but sag basins can also be found...

The Permian Basin is a large sedimentary basin in the southwestern part of the United States. It is the highest producing oil field in the United States...

Variscan orogeny (Hercynian orogeny). The sedimentary basin, no longer a single drainage basin, is a large sag in the craton, bordered by the Armorican Massif...

the younger rift/sag microbial limestones deposited during the Aptian, just before the establishment of the major evaporitic sag basin between South America...

Middleton, M. F. (December 1989). "A model for the formation of intracratonic sag basins". Geophysical Journal International. 99 (3): 665–676. Bibcode:1989GeoJI...

necking zone with thinning of crustal basement, distal domain with deep sag basins, ocean-continent transition and oceanic domain. Deformation and magmatism...

Period. It borders a relatively stable Paleozoic craton and cratonic sag basins along its southern margins. The province extends offshore into the Mediterranean...

the c. 2000 Ma Narracoota Volcanics of the Bryah Basin formed in a transverse back-arc rift sag basin during collision. Culmination of the cratonic collision...

widening sag basin. The first phase of rifting ceased in the Albian at which time the basin underwent an erosive compressional period leading to the basin wide...

Koltogor-Urengoy graben in an intra-cratonic sag basin beginning in the Jurassic has resulted in a thick 'basin fill' of sedimentary deposits ranging from...

~445 and 220 million years ago) Interpreted as the product of basinal "sag" or cratonic basin subsidence Consists of three megasequences, separated by regional...

extensional basin in a general foreland setting. Its geologic evolution begins in the mid Eocene and involves phases of extension and rifting, thermal sag, and...

to Middle Albian Drift stage - Late Albian to Holocene The sag phase in the Santos Basin was characterised by thermal subsidence and generated restricted...

deep basin in the south. The crust also thins rapidly to less than 7 km underneath the Baiyun sag and to less than 9 km underneath the Liwan sag. During...

Minusinsk Basin, as well as the Pazyryk Culture (ca. 500–200 BCE) in the Altai mountains and the Saka culture (ca. 900–200 BCE), to which the Sagly-Bazy culture...

area which underwent sediment sag-loading in the Jurassic to Cretaceous. The western central parts of the Surat Basin unconformably overlies the Palaeozoic...

System and through the use of locks flows away from Lake Michigan to the Cal-Sag Channel. The name "Calumet" is from the French colonial name for a particular...

a weak zone that later led to sagging to produce the basin. The Precambrian basement rocks in the center of the basin beneath the city of Williston,...

the c. 1890 Ma Narracoota Volcanics of the Bryah Basin formed in a transverse back-arc rift sag basin during collision. Culmination of the cratonic collision...

2000, exploration for oil had been well underway in the Tarim basin region where the Wushi sag and Wensu uplift are located. Research by the Petro China institute...

with a diameter of 6.30 meters with which the low basin of the Nederwaard is drained. The mill has sagged over the years and probably around 1870 a buttress...

identified in the Brazilian basins: Pre-rift stage – Jurassic to Valanginian Syn-rift stage – Hauterivian to Late Barremian Sag stage – Late Barremian to...

Altay-Sayan regions dip northward beneath the basin’s sedimentary cover. The basin is a relatively undeformed Mesozoic sag that overlies the Hercynian accreted...

A CWES officer may further be promoted to Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) level and Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) level after putting in a minimum...

Coordinates 41°5′52″N 72°12′45″W / 41.09778°N 72.21250°W / 41.09778; -72.21250 Ocean/sea sources Atlantic Ocean Basin countries United States References...

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir...

The Junggar Basin (simplified Chinese: 准噶尔盆地; traditional Chinese: 準噶爾盆地), also known as the Dzungarian Basin or Zungarian Basin, is one of the largest...

the lower part of the Upper Flow Regime within plane beds. Bomb sag or bedding-plane sag is downwards deformation of tuff beds or other deposits where a...

million years ago, up to 10 kilometers of sediment deposited in rift basins and sag basins in Katanga. In Katanga, the bottom of the sedimentary sequence is...

the Paleozoic. Also known as the Bove Basin further south, the Taoudeni Basin is a slightly dipping sag basin filled with two to three kilometers of...