Stratigraphic modelling of epicontinental basins: two applications

Abstract

Basin analysis has become a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary research field and involves a large variety of fundamental issues concerning the geodynamics of basin formation, controls of basinfilling processes and thermal maturation of the sediment fills. In all these areas, "basin modelling", utilising computer simulation techniques, is increasingly integrated into conventional basin studies (e.g. Welte and Yalcin, 1987; Friedinger, 1988; Strobel et al., 1989; Nielsen and Balling, 1990; papers in Wilgus et al., 1989, and in Cross, 1990).