Robertson Basins and Plays Global Basin Classification

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Lincoln
Sea North
Greenland

Svalbard
Franklinian
- Sverdrup Kronprins
Christian North
East Kara Sea
East West Barents
Siberian Barents
Sea Laptev East
Sea Sea
Sea Siberian
Greenland
North
Beaufort -
Arctic Sea
North
Chukchi
Chukchi Yenisey - Anabar
Mackenzie Southern South Kara/Yamal
Khatanga - Lena
Arctic Greenland Sub-basin -
North Islands East Central Jan Mayen West Siberia
Slope Baffin Hope
Hope Bay Norway Anabar -
Olenek High
Old Crow Timan -
United Foxe Finland
Anderson
States Kandik Sweden Pechora
Yukon Angmagssalik Tunguska
Canada Voring Indigirka - Zyryanka
Flats Eagle
Bear Russia - Momo Anadyr
Bendeleban Southwest Penzhina
Lake Faroe - Mezen Vilyuy Anadyr
Norton Nevana Mackenzie Greenland Iceland Yenisey/Bor Anadyr
ANADYR
Innoko Minchumina Shetland More
Northway Plains Sub-basin - Nepa -
Anadyr Copper Selwyn Escarpment
St. Lowlands - Root Central West Siberia Botuoba
Susitna
Matthew River Labrador Sub-basin - Khatyrka
Holitna Munken North West
Cook Shelf Northern West Siberia Baykit
Navarin Liard Ungava Shetland East
Inlet Gulf of Lewis North Sea High Aldan
60°N Bethel
Alaska Hudson Bay West Shetland
High
60°N
Stevenson Platform
Shelikof Trench Bay Flannan North Orkney Estonia Cis-Patom
Athabasca Hatton Moscow Foredeep Central
- Lewis Minch Moray Firth Sayan -
Albatross Bank Sea of Flannan Central Norwegian Kamchatka
St. Bristol Bay - Skagerrak - Latvia Angara Northwest Komandorsky
Hebrides Trough Graben Northeast
Tugidak Rockall Midland - Danish Omsk/Nyurolka Sea of West
George North Aleutian Bowser Kechika West Slyne - Malin Northumberland Mid North Denmark Kattegat Baltic - Lena Aleutian
Trough Valley Ringkobing-Fyn Sub-basin - Okhotsk Sea of Kamchatka
Amak Canadian - Erris Ulster - Solway Sea High Lithuania Belarus Volga Okhotsk
Shumagin
Aleutian Alberta Peel East High - Urals West Siberia East
Sanak Irish United North Baikal Kamchatka Bowers
Nechako - Moose Southeast Kish Southern North Poland East Sakhalin
BOWERS Sea Kingdom Sea - Anglo-Dutch Northwest Turgay Rift
Queen Tyaughton River Rockall Bank Central Mid-Polish - Central Sea
Bowers Clare German
Charlotte Ireland North Bristol Cheshire - European Trough Pripyat of Okhotsk
Dnieper Aleutian
Aleutian Trench Porcupine Celtic Sea Channel - South Worcester Netherlands
- Donets Upper
Wales Coal Wessex Teniz Zeya Trench
Winona Fastnet 1 Bureya South Sea
Orphan Northern Bureya
Anticosti Plymouth Bay Belgium Rhine
Luxembourg of Okhotsk
Tofino Georgia Williston Cockburn Graben Carpathians
Shackleton Germany Czech Republic Slovakia Precaspian Middle
Western Paris Vienna Ukraine Donbas Hailar Amur
Pacific Bellingham Quincy Lake Austria Zaysan
Crazy Approaches Bresse Molasse Sub-Alpine Kazakhstan Terpeniya
Northeast Pasco Superior Quebec
Sydney Jeanne Molasse TransylvanianMoldova Karkinitsk Foldbelt Turgay
Kuril
Mountains Magdalen - Jura Switzerland North Bay
Trench Tyee Yakima d' Arc Armorican Pannonian
Hungary
(Newfoundland) Slovenia Southern Ustyurt Gobi Yitong
France Croatia Chu Balkhash Junggar Songliao
West Washington Umatilla Western Whale Spanish
Po
Romania
Carpathians
Predobrogea
Indolo-Kuban
Sarysu - Alakol Teshio
Powder Aquitaine Italy Serbia North Tempoku
and Oregon Harney Overthrust Trough Northern
Big Horn Fundy Scotian South Moesian Caucasus Japan
River Michigan Bosnia and Herzegovina Black
Shelf Salar Cantabrian Pyrenean
Apennines
Adriatic Platform Uzbekistan
Mongolia
Erlian Ussuri Arseniev
Eel Lakeview Snake 2 Ultradeep Sea Mangyshlak China
Laramie - Galicia Gulf of Southeast Montenegro Vardar
- Dinaric Albania Bulgaria - Syr-Dar'ya West Tien Shan Turfan Japan Tokachi
River Catlow River Green Washakie Duero Ebro Burgas Rioni - Ustyurt
Hanna - Lion France Balkans Georgia Intermontane
River North Tyrrhenian Macedonia Thrace Central Pontides
Shirley Salina Georges Valencia Sea - Southern Fergana Ishikari -
Park
Forest Lusitanian Spain Iberian Liguria - Greece Turkey Erzurum - ArmeniaAzerbaijan Kyrgyzstan
Point Great Denver Appalachian Bank Madrid Range Trough Tuscany Apennines Northern Sivas - Armenia North Korea Hidaka
Uinta Sand Wash City Provencal Ionian Mus-Hinis Turkmenistan Tarim Yamato Akita
Arena Basin and South Baltimore Balearic Aegean Malatya Kura -
- Piceance Illinois Canyon Betic Sea Kartli South Amu-Dar'ya West
Sacramento Range Paradox Park Georges Bank Tagus
Bodega Guadalquivir Cordillera Caltanissetta Sibari - Adana Southeast Caspian Tajikistan Hexi Ordos Korea Niigata Kitakami
Ultradeep Abyssal Portugal Afghan North
La Honda Raton Ozark Algerian Sea Crotone Turkey Turkey Qaidam Toyama
San Kaiporowits Anadarko - Plain Southern - Tajik China Jiao
Pigeon Gulf of Foldbelt South Korea Joban
Joaquin Salinas San Juan Dalhart Hugoton Baltimore Alboran Aegean Korkuteli-Kas Iskenderun Euphrates Shanxi Liao Tsushima Oki
Point Cadiz
Black Carolina Canyon Sea East Antalya - Sinjar
Minhe
(California)
Santa Los Palo Arkoma Black Pelagian Mediterranean Cyprus Kanto
Mesa Tucumcari Trough Ultradeep Palmyride Central Subei -
Maria Angeles Rio Duro Hardeman Warrior
Doukkala Pre-Rif/Rharb Atlas Sahara Lebanon
Foldbelt
Syria Iran Kohat Kashmir
Yellow Suruga
Orogrande Doukkala Iran - - Potwar Valley
Grande Ardmore Carolina Iraq Sea
Salton - Marieta East North Ultradeep Beni Nile Sinai - Tabuk Zagros Kavir Foldbelt Nanxiang Toki
Channel Trough
Pedregosa - Delaware Midland - Mississippi Cyrenaica Levant Punjab Lunpola Tosa
Islands Trough Permian Fort Texas Louisiana Northeast Ultradeep 1. South Celtic Sea Mellal Tunisia Delta West Bank Foldbelt Farah Sub-basin - Miyazaki
Chihuahua Worth Salt Salt Salt 2. Wind River Essaouira
Val Gulf Salt 3. Rio Muni Ultradeep Bechar Oued Mya Elat Israel
- Sulaiman Indo-Gangetic Jianghan Ogasawa
Kerr Blake Sirte Western Dead Sea Jordan Afghanistan Foldbelt Sichuan Hangjiahu East
Marfa Verde Souss Morocco
30°N East Gulf Plateau Illizi - Kuwait 30°N
Subsidence Regime Vizcaino Mexico
South Texas
Salt Dome
Coast
Blake
Plateau
Canaries
Gourara
Ghadames
Desert
Gulf of Widyan
Kirthar
Nepal Xigaze Lixian Xiangyin
Changtao
Poyang Gan -
China Sea
Tokara
West Gulf Aaiun - Tindouf Upper Baluchistan - Foldbelt India, claimed by China Yuanjiang Hang
Tertiary Tampa Ultradeep Suez - North Indus
Coast Aaiun - Tarfaya Egypt Urgun Foldbelt Ganga Sub-basin Guanxi -
Gulf of Arabian Gulf Bhutan Assam
Tertiary Tarfaya Reggane - Indo-Gangetic Purnea - Brahmaputra Guizhou
Rift Fore-arc (Ocean - Continent) California Sabinas South
Ultradeep Saudi Pakistan Cambay
Sub-basin Okinawa
West Makran Chuxiong
- Rio Florida Arabia - Indo-Gangetic Nanxiong Trough
Purisima Florida Egypt Qatar Oman Foldbelt
Intracratonic Sag Retro-arc Foreland (Ocean - Continent) Grande BahamasThe
Bahamas, Murzuq Offshore Vindhyan
- Iray Mauritania Mountains Damodar Taiwan
Western Libya United Arab Emirates Indus Rewa Bose Ryukyu
Algeria Foldbelt India Central Lanping
Kachchh Tripura - Taiwan Fore-arc
Post-rift Sag Retro-arc Extensional (Ocean - Continent) Yucatan West Sahara Offshore Satpura
Son Bangladesh Myanmar
- Simao Shiwan Qinzhou San Shui
Cuba North Indus Narmada Mahanadi Cachar Foldbelt Tertiary
Platform - Dashan Maoming
Tampico Central Cuba
Cuba Rub Ultradeep - Bengal Myanmar (Burma)
Post-rift Sag with Inversion Retro-arc Post-extensional Sag (Ocean - Continent) Cuba West Beibu Pearl Bijia
East North Haiti al Khali Pranhita - River
Salinas - North Coast Kufrah Mumbai - Mahanadi Hainan Gulf
Cuba Offshore Red Sea Indian Kachchh Godavari Mouth
Veracruz Sureste
Haiti Cibao Mali Niger Saurashtra Northern
Dominican Republic Tertiary Chad Ocean - Mumbai Thailand Bac Bo - Qiongdongnan Cagayan
Passive Margin Arc-related Wrench (Ocean - Continent) Jamaica
Enriquillo Azua Puerto Rico
South Coast Saba Leeward
Taoudenni Oman
Masirah Abyssal Bengal Delta Arakan Thailand
Yinggehai
Shuangfeng
Corrientes Senegal Ultradeep Sub-basin
Jamaica - Beata Tertiary Bank Ultradeep East Yemen Xisha Luzon -
Trench Belize
Guatemala - Bove Phitsanulok
Peten Pedro Bank Niger Chad - Bengal
Passive Margin with Inversion Fore-arc (Ocean - Ocean) Tela South Caribbean Guadeloupe Ultradeep
Senegal
Illumeden Blue Nile Atbara Jiza' - Krishna - Greater Greater Laos Ilocos
- Bove Rift Sab'atayn Say'un - Khorat Trough
Mosquitia Deformation Rift Rift Qamar Godavari Chao Zhongsha
Tobago Eritrea Al Masila Moattama - Phraya Phetchabun
Honduras Los Belt Ultradeep Sana'a Plateau West
Peripheral Foreland (Continent - Continent) Retro-arc Foreland (Ocean - Ocean) Cayos Senegal Sudan Balhaf Sayhut Tanintharyi Luzon
Bicol
Colombia Mumbai - Shelf
El Salvador Nicaragua Gambia, The White Tonle
Tehuantepec Ultradeep Los Aden - Konkan Cambodia Phu North
Peripheral Foreland with Piggyback (Continent - Continent) Retro-arc Extensional (Ocean - Ocean) Gulf of Barbados Nile Rift Southern Sap Vietnam
Guajira Roques Grenada Guinea-Bissau Burkina Faso Abiyan Ultradeep Khanh Palawan Visayan -
Panama - Venezuela Gulf of Aden
Guyana Benue Djibouti Pattani Panjang Iloilo -
Costa Rica Bonaire
Cariaco Muglad - Sagaleh Outer South Mindoro
Syn-orogenic Extensional (Continent - Continent) Arc-related Wrench (Ocean - Ocean) Limon - Sinu-San Cesar-Rancheria Falcon Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago Ultradeep Benin Trough
Konkan Cauvery
Andaman Masbate
Coronado
North
Volta Central Sudd Rift Somalia Bengal Greater Cuu Long Palawan
Becasatel Canal Panama Jacinto Guinea Nigeria - Kerala Sea
Maracaibo Guarico Maturin Cote d`Ivoire African Republic Ethiopia Fan Andaman Thai Agusan
- Toro
Costa Rica Lower Columbus Liberia Sierra Leone Ghana Khmer Dangerous
Intramontane Wrench (Continent - Continent) Retro-arc Post-extensional Sag (Ocean - Ocean) Togo Rift of South Melut - Nicobar - Davao
Panama Magdalena Middle
South Foz do Ultradeep Sri Lanka Grounds Sulu Sea
Chiriqui Liberia Keta - Sudan Rift Mannar Nam Con
Barinas Amazonas North
- Terraba Panama Chucunaque
Magdalena
Togo - Central African Republic Philippines
Guyana Somali - Mannar Sumatra - Son
Late to Post-orogenic Extension (Continent - Continent) Intracratonic Wrench Valley Ultradeep Benin Cotabato
Cupica Choco Eastern Venezuela Ogaden - Ultradeep Malay Sabah -
Llanos Mergui Sandakan
Cordillera Liberia North - Mandera Lugh Sarawak - Baram
Cote Niger
Trapped Oceanic Crustal Sag (Continent - Continent) Wrench (Ocean - Continent) Niger Fan Central West Natuna Luconia - Delta
Brunei
Upper French Guiana d'Ivoire Delta Sibolga
Takutu Suriname Ultradeep Douala Gregory Rift - Penyu East Natuna
Magdalena Foz do Cote d'Ivoire Tarakan
Graben Democratic
Intracratonic Post-wrench Sag (Ocean - Continent) Borbon Valley Guyana
Amazonas Ultradeep Cameroon
Republic of
Uganda
Mogadishu Malaysia
- Marajo Douala
Equatorial Rio Guinea
Muni Albert - - Somali Halmahera
Brazil the Congo Kenya Central
Para - Ultradeep Edward Coastal Ketungau
3 Gabon Sumatra
0° Esmeraldas Maranhao
Barreirinhas Gabon Congo
Rift
Ombilin Melawi Kutei Gorontalo 0°
Lamu
PLATE TECTONIC ENVIRONMENT - Manabi Ecuador Ultradeep Ultradeep Kivu Embayment Tomori Banggai
North New
New
Colombia Rwanda Barito Lariang Guinea
Barreirinhas Piaui - Zaire
Rift Eyasi - Wembere Bengkulu Sula Salawati Bintuni Waipoga Ireland
Lamu Pasir -
PRIMARY CONVERGENT Oriente Amazonas
Ceara Gabon - South Embayment South Salabanga Seram Meervlakte
Tanzania, United Republic of Asem Buru
SUBSIDENCE Santiago Burundi Gregory Rift Ultradeep Sumatra Sepik -
1 2 3 Gulf of Peru Northwest Biliton Asem Manui Akimeugah
MECHANISMS DIVERGENT WRENCH Potiguar
South
Kai - Aru Ramu
Guayaquil Solimoes Tanganyika Java Makassar Buton Indonesia
(Intracratonic and (Intracratonic and Congo Sunda Trough Bougainville
A - SUBDUCTION - Talara Rift Tanzanian Seychelles Irian
marginal) B - SUBDUCTION B - SUBDUCTION marginal) Parnaiba Fan Lower East
(C-C) CONTINENT - Huallaga Pernambuco Ultradeep Congo Coastal Bank Java Sea Sengkang Weber Arafura
(O-C) OCEAN - CONTINENT (O-O) OCEAN - OCEAN Araripe - Paraiba Tanzanian Ultradeep Java Tukang
CONTINENT COLLISION Tapajos Rukwa Coastal Flores Bone Besi Tanimbar
Papuan
Papua New Guinea Woodlark Central
C.2.FA O-C Fore-arc Ucayali Jatoba Sergipe - Rift South Solomon
C.3.FA O-O Fore-arc Salaverry - Rise
C.1.F C-C Peripheral Foreland W.1 Intracratonic Wrench
Alagoas Zambia Saya Java Savu Timor-Leste
Viqueque Trough
Trujillo Ruhuhu Arafura Solomon Islands Nendo
Tucano Kwanza Angola Rift De Malha
D.1 Rift Sergipe - South Sumba
Madre Interior Rovuma Bank
Alagoas Bonaparte
de Dios Xingu Reconcavo Ultradeep Kwanza Luangwa Vanikolo
Malawi Diego
Rift
MECHANICAL
SUBSIDENCE

C.2.F O-C Retro-arc Foreland Parecis Bahia Ultradeep Rift

Norte Bahia Norte Malawi Ambilobe Big Bay -
Samoa Sao Luangwa
C.1.SOE C-C Syn-orogenic Extensional Pisco Ultradeep Browse Cumberland
C.3.F O-O Retro-arc Foreland Beni Bananal Francisco Rift
Bahia Sul Majunga Laura Central
Plain Mozambique Nazareth Vanuatu
Ultradeep Vanuatu
FIJI Bahia
Namibe Angola Middle Ultradeep Majunga Ile St. Bank Carpentaria Queensland
Fiji Arequipa Sul and Lower Marie
Bolivia Rovuma Fiji
Altiplano Zambezi Fiji
Namibia Ultradeep
Panatanal Espirito Espirito Zimbabwe North
C.2.E O-C Retro-arc Extensional Santa Santo
C.1.W C-C Intramontane Wrench W.1.F Intracratonic Wrench Foreland Low Santo Carnarvon Canning Georgina
Cruz Ultradeep Okavango Morondava Mauritius Townsville
Iquique
C.3.E O-O Retro-arc Extensional Reunion New Caledonia
Kenn
Botswana Galilee - Loyalty
Campos Mozambique Plateau
Parana Ngalia Drummond
Atacama Taubate Orange Fan Capricorn
Paraguay Madagascar
Chile Northwest Ultradeep
Puna Santos South Amadeus
C.2.W O-C Arc-related Wrench Cap St. Carnarvon Maryborough
Ultradeep Kalahari
THERMO-MECHANICAL

Santos Marie Australia Nambour

Eromanga
Swaziland Officer
Bowen Clarence
SUBSIDENCE

- Surat - Moreton New

C.3.W O-O Arc-related Wrench Lord
Santa Caledonia
Chaco - South Arckaringa Brisbane Howe
Catarina Lesotho Perth
Parana Africa Rise 30°S
30°S C.1.POE Late- to Post-orogenic
Extensional W.2 Ocean - Continent Wrench Ultradeep Southwest Karoo Mozambique
African Channel Eucla
Coastal Ultradeep Darling
Uruguay Pelotas
Cuyo
Sydney
San Pelotas Polda
Lithospheric Luis General Montevideo Ultradeep Great Murray Northland
delamination
Arauco Levalle Salado - Canelones Outeniqua Bremer Australian
Raukumara
and/or thermal
re-equilibration
Lebu Argentina Punta Bight
Offshore Raukumara
Del Este
C.1.TOC Trapped Oceanic Crustal Sag Macachin Punta Taranaki Offshore
Linares Neuquen del Este Deepwater
- Temuco - Ultradeep Otway Gippsland
Salado Taranaki
Los Angeles East
Ultradeep Bass
Colorado Wanganui Coast
D.2 Intracratonic Sag
Bellona
Ancud
Puerto Argentine Sorell West Pegasus
Nirihuau Valdes Colorado East
Montt Abyssal Coast
CHATHAM Ultradeep Tasman
Chatham Chatham Rise
RISE Plateau
Rise New Zealand
Rawson Canterbury
Fiordland
San
Jorge Rawson
THERMAL SUBSIDENCE

Invercargill
Ultradeep Solander
Great
San South
C.2.S O-C Retro-arc Julian French Southern & Antarctic Lands
North
Post-extensional Sag
Falkland Pukaki
Falkland
Magallanes
D.3 Post-rift Sag Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Plateau
Malvinas Auckland -
Campbell
South Falkland
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Is
Post-collisional
thermal rebound/
uplift
Post-extensional
W.3 Intracratonic Post-wrench Sag
sag and post-subduction
D.4 Passive Margin Post-subduction Thermal rebound/
thermal rebound/ uplift
60°S 60°S
uplift South South
Shetland Bransfield Orkney

Scott

Enderby
Graham
SECONDARY
PROCESSES

Oblique inversion occurs

as a virtual pre-requisite Queen
of strike-slip Maud
(i) Inversion occurs in: (p) Piggyback Basins (i) Inversion occurs in: (p) Piggyback Basins
Rift Retro-arc Extensional Aurora
Post-rift Sag Retro-arc Post-extensional Sag Amundsen Subglacial
Passive Margin Bellingshausen
Weddell Lambert
LEGEND Wilkes
Ross
Central
Trough Continental basement and deformed sediments
Victoria Central
Plate/Mechanical movement Contractional fault
Land Trough
Oceanic crust Antarctica

Thermal subsidence Extensional fault

Marie
Sediments deposited in specified basin type Byrd

Eastern
Older sediments and sediments outside specified basin type Non-specified subsidence Strike-slip fault
(Away) (Towards)

Eastern
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