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This course will focus on examining case studies of tectonic sedimentary basins, both ancient and modern. These will include flexural basins such as foreland basins, collisional basins, forearc basins and passive margins; extensional basins such as rift basins, core complexes, backarc basins, intra-arc basins, and oceanic rifts; and strike-slip basins such as pull-apart basins, intra-arc basins, and transpressional and transtensional basins. The case studies will be drawn from around the world and are dependent on student interests.
Students will gain experience in literature searches, giving lectures, and writing, revising, and reviewing manuscripts. These skills are all useful for conducting research for and writing a thesis.
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
Kari Bassett
Busby, Catherine. , Ingersoll, Raymond V; Tectonics of sedimentary basins ; Blackwell Science, 1995.
This course will be run as a series of seminars in which class participation is encouraged. Responsibility for running the class will alternate between Dr Bassett and students. Students will each be responsible for organizing the reading and running at least one of the class lectures. The remaining students will come prepared to take part in a discussion. There may be 1 or 2 short field trips to be scheduled as time permits.Seminars: 2 hours per week in room 315 – time to be arranged
Domestic fee $760.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Geological Sciences .