Robertson Basins & Plays Global Basin Classification

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Lincoln Sea

North
Greenland

Franklinian
- Sverdrup Kronprins
Norway
Christian North
East Kara Sea
West
Barents
Barents
Sea East
Sea Laptev Sea
Greenland Siberian
Sea
North Chukchi Beaufort -
Mackenzie Baffin Bay South Kara/Yamal Yenisey -
Anabar - Lena
Southern Sub-basin - Khatanga
Arctic Greenland
Islands East Central West Siberia
North Slope

Hope Anabar -
Olenek High Russian
Old Crow
Foxe Finland Federation
Anderson Indigirka -
Kandik Angmagssalik Sweden
Yukon Flats Timan - Tunguska Zyryanka - Momo
United States Voring Pechora
Eagle Canada
Bendeleban Bear Lake Southwest Penzhina
Nevana Iceland Faroe - Mezen Vilyuy Anadyr
Mackenzie Greenland Yenisey/Bor
Norton
Innoko Minchumina Shetland More
Northway Plains Sub-basin - Nepa -
Selwyn Escarpment
Copper River Lowlands - Root Faroe Islands West Siberia Botuoba
St. Matthew Susitna West Central Sub-basin
Holitna Labrador Munken Khatyrka
Ungava Bay
Shelf Shetland East - West Siberia
Navarin Liard Northern Baykit High
Cook Inlet
Flannan Shetland
60°N Bethel Gulf of
- Lewis West Orkney Platform
North Sea
Aldan High 60°N
Stevenson Alaska
Hudson Bay
Trench
Flannan North Lewis Cis-Patom
Shelikof Athabasca Hatton Estonia Moscow Central
Bristol
Trough Sea of North Minch Moray Firth Foredeep
Bay - North Bank Sayan - Kamchatka
Albatross Norwegian Komandorsky
St. George
Aleutian
Rockall Hebrides - Danish Latvia Angara Northwest Northeast
West Midland Valley Baltic Omsk/Nyurolka West
Tugidak Bowser Kechika Trough Malin Central Denmark Volga - Urals - Lena Sea of Okhotsk Sea of
Canadian - Slyne - Erris
Mid North
Sub-basin - Kamchatka
Sea High Graben Ringkobing-Fyn High Skagerrak -
Aleutian
Amak Shumagin Ulster Belarus West Siberia Okhotsk
Alberta East Kattegat Lithuania East
Sanak Southeast Northumberland North Kamchatka Bowers
Nechako Peel Irish
Rockall - Solway Southern North Turgay East Sakhalin
Queen - Tyaughton Moose River Ireland Sea 1 United
Northwest
Central Baikal Rift
Clare Sea - Anglo-Dutch German - Central Sea
Charlotte
Kish
Kingdom European Mid-Polish Pripyat
Aleutian Trench Bank Poland of Okhotsk
Porcupine North Celtic South Bristol Channel - Netherlands Trough
Winona South Wales Coal Upper
Sea Celtic Sea Northern Teniz Zeya Bureya
Wessex
Belgium Czech Dnieper Bureya South Sea
Orphan Fastnet Plymouth Bay Carpathians
Anticosti Luxembourg Germany
Republic of Okhotsk
Tofino Georgia Williston - Donets Middle
Shackleton Cockburn Rhine Precaspian
Kazakhstan Amur
Western Graben Austria Slovakia Hailar
Pacific Donbas
Bellingham Quincy
Paris Moldova Zaysan
Crazy Approaches
Molasse
Sub-Alpine Turgay
Jeanne Foldbelt Terpeniya Bay
Northeast Molasse Vienna
Quebec
Mountains Lake Superior Magdalen Sydney Ukraine Kuril
Pasco d' Arc Armorican Switzerland Hungary Transylvanian
Trench Yakima (Newfoundland) Karkinitsk
France Bresse - Jura Pannonian Balkhash Junggar Yitong
Tyee Umatilla
Western Whale Aquitaine Predobrogea
North Ustyurt Chu Sarysu Songliao
West Washington Spanish Po Croatia Southern Romania
Indolo-Kuban
- Alakol Gobi Teshio
Overthrust Big Horn
Italy
Bosnia and North Tempoku
and Oregon Harney Powder Trough Southeast Northern Carpathians
Fundy Scotian Shelf Herzegovina Moesian Caucasus
River Michigan France Apennines Platform Black Sea Uzbekistan Erlian Ussuri Arseniev
Wind River Cantabrian Mongolia
Salar Montenegro Bulgaria Mangyshlak West Tien Shan
Turfan
Japan
Eel River Catlow Snake River Green Washakie Laramie - Galicia South Pyrenean Gulf of Lion Burgas Syr-Dar'ya Intermontane China Japan Tokachi
Ultradeep Duero Adriatic Serbia Vardar -
Rioni - Ustyurt
Lakeview River Hanna - - Dinaric Former Yugoslav Georgia
Salina
Spain Ebro
Valencia Tyrrhenian Balkans
Thrace
Pontides
Kyrgyzstan
North Shirley Albania of Macedonia Fergana
Georges Bank Iberian Liguria - Sea - Tuscany Republic Azerbaijan
North Ishikari -
Point Arena Great Sand Park Trough Southern Greece Central Sivas - Armenia
Armenia
Uinta Denver Forest City Appalachian Range
Provencal Ionian Sea Erzurum -
Korea Hidaka
Wash Madrid Apennines Turkey Malatya Mus-Hinis Turkmenistan Tarim Akita
Sacramento Basin and Lusitanian
Balearic
Northern
Kura - Kartli
Range - Piceance South Park Illinois Georges Bank
Betic Cordillera Aegean
Amu-Dar'ya Yamato
Bodega Tagus Southeast South Caspian West Korea Kitakami
Paradox Guadalquivir Caltanissetta Sibari - Turkey Tajikistan Hexi Ordos North China
Ozark Baltimore Ultradeep Abyssal Portugal Adana Turkey Foldbelt Afghan Niigata
La Honda Raton Anadarko Canyon Algerian Sea Crotone - Tajik Qaidam
Kaiporowits Baltimore Plain South Tsushima Toyama Joban
Pigeon Point San Joaquin San Juan - Hugoton Gulf of Southern Antalya Jiao Liao Oki
Canyon Cadiz Alboran Sea East Iskenderun Euphrates Shanxi Korea
Salinas (California) Dalhart Aegean
Korkuteli-Kas - Sinjar
Black Ultradeep Pelagian Mediterranean Minhe
Palo Arkoma Carolina Pre-Rif/Rharb Cyprus Cyprus Subei - Kanto
Santa Maria Mesa Tucumcari Trough Central Yellow
Rio Duro Hardeman Ardmore - Black Warrior Doukkala Atlas Sahara Eratosthenes Lebanon
Syria
Iran - Kavir
Kohat Kashmir Suruga
Los Angeles North Doukkala - Potwar Valley Sea
Grande Orogrande Midland - Marieta Ultradeep Platform Palmyride Iraq Nanxiang Toki
Fort Louisiana Salt Tunisia Zagros Foldbelt Tosa
Permian East Carolina Beni Mellal Foldbelt Lunpola
Channel Islands Worth Cyrenaica Nile Delta Israel Foldbelt Farah Punjab
Pedregosa - Texas Salt Mississippi Salt Northeast Trough Palestinian Territory
Delaware Gulf Salt
Essaouira Oued Mya Sub-basin - Miyazaki

Salton Trough Chihuahua Kerr Ultradeep Bechar Sulaiman Jianghan Ogasawa

Val Verde Blake Plateau Souss Sirte
Sinai - Jordan Indo-Gangetic Sichuan
Morocco Western Levant Iran Afghanistan Kirthar Foldbelt Poyang Hangjiahu East
30°N East Blake
Illizi -
Desert Elat - Kuwait Xigaze Lixian
Yuanjiang
China Sea
30°N
South Texas Canaries Ghadames Tabuk Foldbelt Nepal Purnea - Tokara
Vizcaino Mexico Gulf Coast Plateau Dead Sea Widyan - North Changtao
Xiangyin Gan - Hang
Salt Dome Tindouf Gourara Baluchistan Pakistan Brahmaputra Sub-basin -
Marfa Tertiary Tampa Ultradeep Western Gulf of Suez Arabian Gulf Indus
West Gulf Sahara - Urgun Ganga Sub-basin Indo-Gangetic Bhutan Guanxi -
Assam
Coast Tertiary Aaiun - Reggane Foldbelt India - Indo-Gangetic Guizhou
Aaiun - Upper Egypt
Sabinas - West Florida South Florida Tarfaya Makran Bangladesh Chuxiong Okinawa Ryukyu
Tarfaya Central Nanxiong
Gulf of Rio Grande Ultradeep Qatar Foldbelt Trough Fore-arc
Purisima Bahamas
Murzuq Myanmar Taiwan
- Iray
California
Mauritania Libya Egypt United Arab Oman Vindhyan Damodar
Bahamas Offshore Tertiary Lanping Bose
North Cuba
Algeria Emirates Mountains Cambay Rewa
Indus - Simao
Central Cuba
Foldbelt Kachchh
Son Mahanadi Tripura - Qinzhou San Shui Taiwan
Yucatan West Cuba Satpura Shiwan -
Cuba Narmada Cachar Foldbelt
Tampico Platform Offshore Indus - Bengal
Myanmar Dashan Maoming
1. Cheshire - Worcester Vietnam
North Haiti 2. Say'un - Al Masila Mali Ultradeep Pearl River
East Cuba 3. Limon - Becasatel - Toro Niger Saudi Arabia Pranhita Beibu Gulf Bijia
Offshore Kufrah Sudan Kachchh Mumbai - Mahanadi Mouth Cagayan
Indian
PLATE TECTONIC ENVIRONMENT Veracruz
Salinas -
Sureste
Enriquillo
Dominican
Cibao North Coast
Republic Tertiary Atlantic Ocean Taoudenni Chad
Red Sea
Rub al Khali Ocean - Mumbai Saurashtra
- Godavari Thailand
Northern
West Hainan
Shuangfeng
Haiti Azua Leeward Oman Ultradeep Bengal Delta Arakan
Corrientes Jamaica Masirah Abyssal Thailand
Qiongdongnan Xisha
Belize Saba Bank Ultradeep Atbara Sub-basin
CONVERGENT Trench Jamaica - Beata Senegal
PRIMARY Guatemala Mosquitia South Senegal East Chad Rift Yemen - Bengal Phetchabun Laos Luzon -
Tela Pedro Bank Guadeloupe - Bove Niger Rift Bac Bo - Zhongsha
SUBSIDENCE Peten Coast - Bove Illumeden Krishna - Phitsanulok Greater
Ilocos Trough
DIVERGENT 1 2 3 WRENCH Honduras Sab'atayn Jiza' - Qamar Khorat Yinggehai Plateau
MECHANISMS
(Intracratonic and (Intracratonic and Los Cayos
Tertiary Tobago Ultradeep Eritrea 2 Godavari
Moattama - Greater Chao
West Pacific Ocean
A - SUBDUCTION Nicaragua South Caribbean Balhaf Tanintharyi Cambodia Luzon
marginal) marginal) Blue Sana'a Sayhut Andaman Phraya
B - SUBDUCTION B - SUBDUCTION El Salvador Deformation Gambia Senegal White Nile
(C-C) CONTINENT - (O-C) OCEAN - CONTINENT Nile - Nicobar Tonle Sap
(O-O) OCEAN - OCEAN Tehuantepec Colombia Gulf of Belt Ultradeep
Rift Aden - Abiyan Southern Mumbai - North Bicol Shelf
CONTINENT COLLISION Ultradeep Guajira
Los Roques
Grenada Barbados Guinea-Bissau Burkina Rift Gulf of Konkan
Phu Khanh
Palawan
Panama Venezuela Bonaire Faso Aden
C.2.FA O-C Fore-arc C.3.FA O-O Fore-arc - Costa Rica Lower Magdalena Cesar - Trinidad Guyana Guinea Djibouti Somalia Ultradeep Pattani Panjang Mindoro Visayan
C.1.F C-C Peripheral Foreland W.1 Intracratonic Wrench Cariaco - Iloilo -
North Panama Sinu - San
Rancheria Falcon Trinidad
and Columbus Ultradeep Cauvery Greater Thai South Palawan
Coronado 3 Benin Sagaleh Konkan - Cuu Long Masbate
D.1 Rift
Maracaibo Tobago Ghana Nigeria Muglad - Philippines
Costa Rica Canal Jacinto Sierra Leone Cote d'Ivoire Central
Melut Kerala Outer Khmer Dangerous
Middle Guarico Maturin African
Sudd Rift Andaman Sea
Pacific Ocean South
Chucunaque
Panama
Magdalena Foz do Volta
Rift
Central Rift
Ethiopia Mannar Sri
Bengal Fan
North
Nam Grounds Sulu Sea

Valley Barinas Amazonas Togo Benue African Con Son

MECHANICAL

Panama
SUBSIDENCE

C.2.F O-C Retro-arc Foreland Guyana Trough South Mannar Lanka Sumatra -
Ultradeep Liberia Republic Somali - Cotabato
Chiriqui Cupica Eastern Venezuela Guyana Keta - Sudan Ultradeep Mergui Malay
C.1.SOE C-C Syn-orogenic Extensional Ogaden - Sabah -
Sandakan
- Terraba Choco Cordillera Liberia Togo - Benin Baram
C.3.F O-O Retro-arc Foreland Llanos French North - Central Mandera Lugh Sarawak - Delta Agusan -
Guiana Liberia Cote d'Ivoire Sibolga West Natuna Luconia - Brunei
Upper Niger Fan Niger Delta Gregory Rift Davao
Takutu Suriname Ultradeep Cameroon - Penyu East Natuna Darussalam
Magdalena Foz do Cote d'Ivoire Ultradeep Douala Douala Democratic
Graben Uganda Tarakan
Borbon Valley Amazonas Ultradeep Ultradeep Rio
Congo
Republic of Malaysia
Equatorial the Congo Mogadishu Central
- Marajo Rio Muni
Muni Albert Kenya Sumatra
Guinea Gabon - Somali
C.1.W C-C Intramontane Wrench C.2.E O-C Retro-arc Extensional Para Ultradeep - Edward Lamu Ketungau
W.1.F Intracratonic Wrench Foreland Coastal
- Maranhao Rift Melawi
Gorontalo
Halmahera 0°
0° Esmeraldas Barreirinhas Ultradeep Gabon Embayment
Ombilin Kutei
C.3.E O-O Retro-arc Extensional Ultradeep Lariang Tomori
- Manabi Colombia Barreirinhas Kivu Rift North New
Ecuador Banggai Sula Salawati New Ireland
Brazil Gabon Zaire Rwanda Lamu Bengkulu Barito Pasir Waipoga Guinea
Tumbes Oriente Amazonas Piaui - Ceara Eyasi - Wembere - Embayment South Sumatra - Asem Salabanga Seram
Bintuni
Meervlakte
Asem Manui Buru
South Gregory Rift Ultradeep Northwest Sengkang Indonesia Sepik - Ramu
Santiago Peru Burundi Bone
Potiguar Tanganyika Java Biliton Kai - Aru Bougainville
C.2.W O-C Arc-related Wrench
Solimoes Buton Akimeugah
Talara Congo Tanzania Sunda South Makassar Trough
Rift Seychelles
THERMO-MECHANICAL

Fan Lower Tanzanian Irian Arafura

Parnaiba Pernambuco Congo Bank
Java Sea Papua New Central
Huallaga Ultradeep Coastal East Java Weber

Salaverry Araripe - Paraiba Tanzanian Tukang Besi Guinea Solomon Solomon

Ultradeep
SUBSIDENCE

Tapajos Rukwa Coastal Flores Tanimbar

French
C.3.W O-O Arc-related Wrench - Trujillo Woodlark Rise Trough
Ucayali Jatoba Sergipe - Rift Timor-Leste Papuan Islands
Polynesia South Java Savu Viqueque
Alagoas Zambia Saya
Ruhuhu Rift Arafura Nendo
C.1.POE Late- to Post-orogenic
W.2 Ocean - Continent Wrench Kwanza De Malha
Extensional Tucano Sergipe - South Sumba
Luangwa Rift Rovuma Bank
Alagoas Bonaparte
Madre de Dios Xingu Angola Vanikolo
Reconcavo Ultradeep Malawi Rift Diego
Parecis Big Bay -
Mozambique Ambilobe
Sao Francisco Bahia Sul Kwanza Cumberland
Pisco Bahia Malawi Browse
Lithospheric
Beni Plain Ultradeep Ultradeep Angola
delamination
and/or thermal
re-equilibration
Bananal Norte
Bahia Norte Interior Middle Majunga Majunga Nazareth Indian Ocean Laura Central Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Ultradeep Namibe and Lower Ultradeep Bank Queensland
Bahia Sul Ile St. Marie Carpentaria Fiji
C.1.TOC Trapped Oceanic Crustal Sag Mollendo Bolivia Zambezi Madagascar
Rovuma
Altiplano Fiji
Ultradeep
Panatanal Espirito Espirito Zimbabwe North
Low Santo Santo Okavango Carnarvon Georgina
Santa Cruz Canning
Iquique Ultradeep Morondava Mauritius Townsville
D.2 Intracratonic Sag New Caledonia
Reunion
Galilee - Kenn
Paraguay Campos Botswana Loyalty
Mozambique Drummond Plateau
Parana Ngalia
Taubate Orange Fan Capricorn
Atacama
Northwest Ultradeep
Puna Santos Amadeus Maryborough
South Australia
Ultradeep Kalahari Cap St. Marie Carnarvon
Santos Eromanga Nambour
THERMAL SUBSIDENCE

Swaziland Officer
Namibia
Bowen - Surat Clarence -
Moreton
Lord
Chaco - Santa Arckaringa
C.2.S O-C Retro-arc South Africa Lesotho Perth Howe
Post-extensional Sag Parana Catarina
30°S Ultradeep Orange Karoo Mozambique Brisbane Rise 30°S
Channel
D.3 Post-rift Sag
Eucla Darling
Pelotas Ultradeep
Cuyo Uruguay
Sydney
San Pelotas Polda
Luis General Montevideo Ultradeep Great Murray New Caledonia
Post-collisional Arauco Levalle - Canelones Outeniqua Bremer
Australian
Punta Northland
thermal rebound/ Lebu Bight
Del Este Raukumara
uplift Salado Punta
Macachin Offshore
Post-extensional Linares Neuquen del Este Deepwater
W.3 Intracratonic Post-wrench Sag
sag and post-subduction - Temuco - Argentina Ultradeep Otway Taranaki Taranaki
East
Gippsland Coast
D.4 Passive Margin Post-subduction Thermal rebound/ Los Angeles Salado
uplift Bass
thermal rebound/ Colorado Ultradeep
Wanganui
uplift Bellona
Ancud
Valdes Argentine Sorell West Coast
Nirihuau Colorado East Pegasus
Puerto Montt Abyssal Tasman
Ultradeep Plateau Chatham Rise
Rawson New
Canterbury
Fiordland Zealand
San Jorge
SECONDARY

Invercargill
PROCESSES

Rawson
Oblique inversion occurs
Chile
Ultradeep Solander
as a virtual pre-requisite
Great South
of strike-slip San Julian North French
(i) Inversion occurs in: (p) Piggyback Basins (i) Inversion occurs in: (p) Piggyback Basins Falkland Southern
Rift Retro-arc Extensional Territories Pukaki
Post-rift Sag Retro-arc Post-extensional Sag Falkland
Passive Margin Magallanes Falkland Plateau
Malvinas Islands Auckland -
LEGEND Campbell
South Falkland Sth Georgia
and the Sth
Continental basement and deformed sediments
Sandwich Islands
Plate/Mechanical movement Contractional fault
Oceanic crust

Thermal subsidence Extensional fault

Sediments deposited in specified basin type

60°S 60°S
Older sediments and sediments outside specified basin type Non-specified subsidence South
Strike-slip fault South Orkney
(Away) (Towards) Shetland
Bransfield

Scott

Enderby
Graham

Queen Maud

Aurora
Amundsen Subglacial
Bellingshausen
Weddell Lambert

Robertson Basins and Plays classified by subsidence regime

Wilkes
Ross

Central
Trough

Rift Passive Margin Intramontane Wrench (Continent - Continent) Fore-arc with Piggyback (Ocean - Continent) Arc-related Wrench (Ocean - Continent) Retro-arc Foreland (Ocean - Ocean) Retro-arc Post-extensional Sag (Ocean - Continent) with Inversion
Antarctica Victoria Land

Marie Byrd

Eastern
Intracratonic Sag Passive Margin with Inversion Late to Post-orogenic Extension (Continent - Continent) Retro-arc Foreland (Ocean - Continent) Retro-arc Post-extensional Sag (Ocean - Continent) Retro-arc Extensional (Ocean - Ocean) Intracratonic Wrench
Data presented on this poster are extracted from the
Post-rift Sag Peripheral Foreland (Continent - Continent) Trapped Oceanic Crustal Sag (Continent - Continent) Retro-arc Extensional (Ocean - Continent) Fore-arc (Ocean - Ocean) Arc-related Wrench (Ocean - Ocean) Wrench (Ocean - Continent)
Post-rift Sag with Inversion Syn-orogenic Extensional (Continent - Continent) Fore-arc (Ocean - Continent) Retro-arc Extensional (Ocean - Continent) with Inversion Fore-arc with Piggyback (Ocean - Ocean) Retro-arc Post-extensional Sag (Ocean - Ocean) Intracratonic Post-wrench Sag
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