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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Sedimentary basins of Africa, Sedimentary basins of Australia, Sedimentary basins of Europe, Sedimentary basins of North America, Aquitaine Basin, Powder River Basin, Sirte Basin, Delaware Basin, London Basin, Denver Basin, Weald Basin, Sydney Basin, Hampshire Basin, Murray Basin, Clarence Moreton Basin, Perth Basin, Rockall Basin, Raton Basin, Pannonian Basin, Bighorn Basin, Piceance Basin, Williston Basin, Uintah Basin, Bowen Basin, Cariaco Basin, Los Angeles Basin, Michigan Basin, Surat Basin, Illinois Basin, Permian Basin, Cooper Basin, Paris Basin, Black Warrior Basin, Taoudeni basin, Amadeus Basin, Wind River Basin, San Juan Basin, Slyne-Erris Trough, Vienna Basin, Paradox Basin, Vale of Clwyd, Eucla Basin, Carnarvon Basin, McArthur Basin, Cheshire Basin, Centralian Superbasin, Orca Basin, Officer Basin, Georgina Basin, Collie Sub-basin, Canning Basin, Gotland Basin, Ngalia Basin, Fowler-Yang equations, Eromanga Basin, Hatton Basin. Excerpt: The Aquitaine Basin is after the Paris Basin the second largest Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary basin in France, occupying a large part of the country's southwestern quadrant. Its surface area covers 66,000 km onshore. It formed on Variscan basement which was peneplained during the Permian and then started subsiding in the early Triassic. The basement is covered in the Parentis Basin and in the Subpyrenean Basin - both sub-basins of the main Aquitaine Basin - by 11,000 m of sediment. The geological provinces of France, the Aquitaine Basin on the lower left hand sideThe Aquitaine Basin, named after the French region Aquitaine, is roughly funnel-shaped with its opening pointing towards the Atlantic Ocean. Here it meets for 330 km the straight, more or less north-south trending Atlantic coastline but continues offshore to the continental slope. To the south, it is delimitat...
