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Role of Pore Water in Deformation of Sedimentary Basins

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We must make the distinction between pre-orogenic deformation and orogenic deformation of sedimentary basins because there is a great deal of evidence that important deformation occurs in sedimentary basins while they are accumulating sediment on a subsiding sedimentary column — particularly in the terminal regressive sequence. The regressive sequence itself is due to a neighbouring orogeny outside the sedimentary basin: the creation of mountains creates sediment in increasing amounts until the supply of sediment to a sedimentary basin exceeds the volume created by subsidence of the sedimentary basin. The sea then tends to become shallower, and the sediments prograde away from the orogeny.

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Chapman, R.E. (1981). Role of Pore Water in Deformation of Sedimentary Basins. In: Chapman, R.E. (eds) Geology and Water. Developments in Applied Earth Sciences, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8244-4_7

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