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Library » Research Skills » Lent Reading List - Option 1

Lent Reading List - Option 1: G1 Basin Dynamics

Please note that if references are marked with an asterisk (*) , they have been highlighted by your lecturers as being particularly useful to you.

Book References

A search in the Library Catalogue - Newton - will give you the classmark and location in the Library for each book.

General textbooks and Practicals and Solutions

• Allen, P.A, and Allen, J.R. (2005) Basin analysis: principles and applications: 2 nd ed. Oxford, Blackwell.
• Fowler, C.M.R., (2005) The Solid Earth: an introduction to global geophysics: 2 nd ed. Cambridge University Press.
• Ranalli, G (1995) Rheology of the earth:   deformation   processes   in
• geophysics and geodynamics . 2 nd ed Allen & Unwin.
• Watts, A.B. (2001).   Isostasy & flexure of the lithosphere. Cambridge University Press.
• Turcotte, D.L. & Schubert, G.   (2002). Geodynamics. 2 nd ed.  Cambridge University Press.

Journal References

If available online the journal title will be linked to ABSTRACT LEVEL. You will have the option to download full-text or pdfs.

A number of these references will be available in the part II/III reprint collection housed in the Library Office. A full listing of what is in this collection is available on the Library website.

Lecture One

N White

No need to read primary literature. Books from reference list above:

• Fowler, C.M.R., (2005) The Solid Earth: an introduction to global geophysics: 2 nd ed. Cambridge University Press.
• Watts, A.B. (2001).   Isostasy & flexure of the lithosphere. Cambridge University Press.

Lecture Two

N White

No need to read primary literature. Books from reference list above:

• Fowler, C.M.R., (2005) The Solid Earth: an introduction to global geophysics: 2 nd ed. Cambridge University Press.
• Watts, A.B. (2001).   Isostasy & flexure of the lithosphere. Cambridge University Press.

Lecture Three

N White

• *McKenzie, D. (1978). Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins . Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 40: 25-32.
• *Jarvis, G.T., & McKenzie, D.P. (1980). Sedimentary basin formation with finite extension rates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 48, 42-52.
• *Barton, P J & Wood, R J (1984). Tectonic evolution of the North Sea basin: crustal stretching and subsidence. Geophysical Journal Royal Astronomical Society, 79: 987-1022.
• *Le Pichon, X., & Sibuet, J.C., (1981). Passive margins: A model of formation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 86, 3708-3720.
• *Steckler, M.S., & Watts, A.B. (1978). Subsidence of the Atlantic-type continental margin off New York. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 41, 1-13.

Supplemental References

• Gibbs, A.D. (1987) Deep seismic profiles in the northern North Sea. IN: Brooks, J. & Glennie, K. W. (eds) Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe, Proc. 3 rd conf., pp 1025-1028
• Lister, G.S., Etheridge, M.A., and Symonds, P.A., 1986, Detachment faulting and the evolution of passive continental margins: Geology, v. 14, p. 246-250.
• Parsons, B. & McKenzie, D., (1978). Mantle convection and the thermal structure of the plates. Journal of Geophysical Research 83, 4485-4496
• Royden, L. & Keen, C.E. (1980) Rifting process and thermal evolution of the continental margin of eastern Canada determined from subsidence dataEarth and Planetary Science Letters, 51, 343-361.
• Royden, L., Sclater, J.G. & von Herzen, R.P. (1980), Continental-margin subsidence and heat-flow – important parameters in formation of petroleum-hydrocarbons, AAPG Bulletin, 64: 173-187
• Sclater, J.G. & P.A.F.Christie (1980) Continental stretching – an explanation of the post-mid-Cretaceous subsidence of the central North Sea basin Journal of Geophysical Research 85: 3711-3739
• Sclater, J.G., Royden, L., F. Horvath et al. (1980). The formation of the intra-Carpathian basins as determined from subsidence data , Earth and Planetary Science Letters 51: 139-162
• Wernicke, B. (1985). Uniform-sense normal simple shear of the continental lithosphere Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 22:108-125
• White, N. J. (1993) Recovery of strain-rate variation from inversion of subsidence data, Nature, 366: 449-452.
• Ziegler, P.A. (1983). Crustal thinning and subsidence in the North Sea. Nature, 304:561

Lecture Four

N White

• *White, N., & McKenzie (1988). Formation of the “steer's head" geometry of sedimentary basins by differential stretching of the crust and mantle. Geology, 16: 250-253.
• *Jackson et al. (1988). Relations between normal fault geometry, tilting and vertical motions in extensional terrains: an example from the southern Gulf of Suez. Journal of Structural Geology,10, 155-170. doi:10.1016/0191-8141(88)90113-7

Supplemental References

• Barr, D. (1987). Structural/stratigraphic models for extensional basins of half-graben type, Journal of Structural Geology, 9 491-500
• Barr, D. (1987) Lithospheric stretching, detached normal faulting and footwall uplift, IN: Coward, M.P., Dewey, J.F. & Hancock, P.L., Special Publication Geological Society of London v. 28, pp 75-94.
• Barton, P., and Wood, R., (1984) Tectonic evolution of the North Sea basin: Crustal stretching and subsidence, Geophysics Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society,   79, p. 987-1022
• Chenet, P.Y. & Letouzey, J. (1983) Tectonique de la zone comprise entre Abu Durba et Gebel Mezzazat (Sinai, Egypte), dans le contexte de l’evolution du rift de Suez. Bulletin Centres Recherches Exploration Prod. Elf-Aquitaine, 7:201-215.
• Dewey, J.F. (1982) Plate tectonics and the evolution of the British-Isles Journal of the Geological Society, 139: 371-412
• Glennie, K.W. (Ed.) Introduction to the Petroleum Geology of the North Sea 1986   Blackwell, Oxford.
• Jackson, J. A.   McKenzie, D. P. (1983) The geometrical evolution of normal fault systems, Journal of Structural Geology 5: 471-482
• Jackson, J. A., King, G. C. P., Vita-Finzi, C. ( 1982) The neotectonics of the Aegean: an alternative view,Earth and Planetary Science Letters 61: 303-318
• Jackson, J. A., White, N. J., Garfunkel, Z. , Anderson, H. J. (1988) Relations between normal-fault geometry, tilting and vertical movements in extensional terranes: an example from the southern Gulf of Suez,  Journal of Structural Geology 10: 155-170
• Lyon-Caen, H., and P. Molnar, 1983, Constraints on the structure of the Himalaya from an analysis of gravity anomalies and a flexural model of the lithosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, 88: 8171-8191.
• McKenzie, D. P. ( 1984) A possible mechanism for epeirogenic uplift,Nature 307: 616-618
• Mauffret,A; Montadert, L. (1987). Rift tectonics on the passive continental-margin off Galicia (Spain)Marine and Petroleum Geology, 4 : 49-70
• Montadert, L. De Charpal, O. Roberts, D. Guennoc, P., & Sibuet, J.C. (1979). Northeast Atlantic passive continental margins: rifting and subsidence processes. Maurice Ewing Series v. 3 (AGU) 154-186.
• Moretti, I; Colletta, B. (1987) Spatial and temporal evolution of the Suez rift subsidence, Journal of Geodynamics, 7: 151-168
• Rawson, P.F.; Riley, L.A. (1982) Latest Jurassic-early cretaceous events and the late Cimmerian unconformity in North-Sea area
  AAPG Bulletin, 66: 2628-2648
• Savage, J.C. & Hastie, L.M. (1966). Surface deformation associated with dip-slip faulting. Journal of Geophysical Research , 71:4897-4904
• Steckler, M.S. (1985) Uplift and extension at the gulf of Suez – indication of induced mantle convection, Nature, 317 : 135-139
• Vail, P.R. & Todd, R.G. (1981). Northern North Sea Jurassic unconformities, chronostratigraphy and sea level changes from seismic stratigraphy. IN: Illing, L.V. & Hobson, G. D. (Eds.) Petroleum geology of the continental shelf of north-west Europe . Institute of Petroleum, London, pp216-235.
• Vail, P.R., Mitchum, R.M.,Todd, R.G, et al… (1977) Seismic stratigraphy and global changes of sea level. IN: Payton, CE (Ed.) Seismic stratigraphy – applications to hydrocarbon exploration. Memoir American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 26, pp 49-212.
• Watts, A.B. & Steckler, M.S. (1979) Subsidence and eustasy at the continental margin of Eastern North America. Maurice Ewing Series v. 3 (AGU), 218-234.
• Watts, A.B.; Karner, G. D.; Steckler, M.S. (1982) Lithospheric flexure and the evolution of sedimentary basins, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London series A, 305: 249-281
• White, N., and McKenzie, D., 1988, Formation of the “steer’s head” geometry of sedimentary basins by differential stretching of the crust and mantle.: Geology, v. 16, p. 250-253.

Lecture Five

N White

• Jackson & White (1989). Normal faulting in the upper continental crust: observations from regions of active extension. Journal of Structural Geology, 11, 15-36.
• Kerr, H.G. & White, N. (1994). Application of an automatic method for determining normal fault geometries. Journal of Structural Geology, 16, 1691-1709.

Lecture Six

N White

• * The Millennial Atlas of the petroleum geology of the central and northern North Sea (2003). Geological Society of London. 2 CD set. (OR HARD COPY IN LIBRARY)
• *Brodie, J. & White, N. (1994). Sedimentary basin inversion due to igneous underplating: Northwest European continental shelf. Geology, 22: 147-150.
• *White, N. & Lovell, J.P.B. (1997). Measuring the pulse of a plume with the sedimentary record. Nature, 387: 888-891.
• *Rowley, E., & White, N. (1998). Inverse modelling of extension and denudation in the East Irish Sea and surrounding areas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 161: 57-71. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00137-X

Supplemental References

• Brodie, J. & White, N. (1989) Sedimentary basin inversion caused by igneous underplating: Northwest European continental shelf. Geology 22: 147-150
• Cox, K.G. (1993) Continental magmatic underplating. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal society of London A, 342: 155-166.
• White, R.S. & McKenzie, D. (1989) Magmatism at rift zones: the generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: 7685-7729

Lecture Seven

N White

• White, N. (1993). Recovery of strain rate variation from inversion of subsidence data. Nature, 366, 449-452.
• Bellingham, P. & White, N. (2000). A general inverse method for modelling extensional sedimentary basins. Basin Research, 12: 219-226.
  doi:10.1046/j.1365-2117.2000.00122.x
• Jones, S.M., White, N.J., Faulkner, P., & Bellingham, P. (2004). Animated models of extensional basins and passive margins . Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 5, 8, Q08009, doi:10.1029/2003GC000658.
• White, N., Thompson, M. & Barwise, T. (2003). Understanding the structural and thermal evolution of deep-water continental margins . Nature, 426: 334-343.
  doi:10.1038/nature02133

Lecture Eight

N White

• Lyon-Caen, H & Molnar, P (1985). Gravity anomalies, exure of the Indian plate, and the structure, support and evolution of the Himalaya and Ganga basin. Tectonics, 4:6, 513-538.
• Allen & Homewood (1986). Foreland Basins. Special Publication International Association of Sedimentologists, volume 8. Blackwells.
• Beaumont, C, Keen, C E & Boutilier, R (1982). A comparison of foreland and rift-margin sedimentary basins. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A 305, 295-317.
• Bry, M., White, N., Singh, S., England, R., & Trowell, C. (2004). Anatomy and formation of oblique continental collision: South Falkland basin. Tectonics, 23
  doi:10.1029/2002TC001482.

LectureNine

N White

• Mackay et al., (2005) Cenozoic vertical motions in the Moray Firth Basin associated with the initiation of the Iceland Plume Tectonics 24, TC5004
  doi:10.1029/2004TC001683, 2005
• Doré, A.G., Cartwright, J.A., Stoker, M.S., Turner, J.P., & White, N. (2002). Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: introduction and background. Special Publications, Geological Society of London, 196, 1-12.

Lecture Ten

N White

• Doré, A.G., Cartwright, J.A., Stoker, M.S., Turner, J.P., & White, N. (2002). Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: introduction and background. Special Publications, Geological Society of London, 196, 1-12.
• Jones, S.M., White, N.J. and J. Maclennan, (2002) V-shaped ridges around Iceland: Implications for spatial and temporal patterns of mantle convection, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 3: 1058, doi:10.1029/2002GC000361,  
• Poore, H.R., Samworth, R., White, N.J., Jones, S.M. and I.N. McCave, Neogene Overflow of Northern Component Water at the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7 6010 doi:10.1029/2005GC001085

Lecture Eleven

N White

• Walford, H. L., White, N. J. & Sydow, J. C. (2005). Solid sediment load history of the Zambezi delta. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 238: 49-63.
  doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.07.014
• Walford, H. & White, N. (2005). Constraining uplift and denudation of West African continental margin by inversion of stacking velocity data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B4, B04403,
  doi:org/10.1029/2003JB002893.

Lecture Twelve

N White

• Morgan, J. and 18 others (1997). Size and morphology of the Chixulub impact crater . Nature, 390: 472-476. doi:10.1038/37291

Lecture Thirteen

N White

• Yilmaz, O. (2001). Seismic data analysis. Two volumes. IG number 10. Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
• Lonergan, L. & White, N. (1999). Three-dimensional seismic imaging of a dynamic Earth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 357: 3359-3375.

Lecture Fourteen

N White

• Yilmaz, O. (2001). Seismic data analysis. Two volumes. IG number 10. Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
• Lonergan, L. & White, N. (1999). Three-dimensional seismic imaging of a dynamic Earth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 357: 3359-3375.

Lecture Fifteen

N White

• Yilmaz, O. (2001). Seismic data analysis. Two volumes. IG number 10. Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
• Lonergan, L. & White, N. (1999). Three-dimensional seismic imaging of a dynamic Earth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 357: 3359-3375.

Lecture Sixteen

N White

• Yilmaz, O. (2001). Seismic data analysis. Two volumes. IG number 10. Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
• Lonergan, L. & White, N. (1999). Three-dimensional seismic imaging of a dynamic Earth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 357: 3359-3375.

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