| General Focus – Current research focuses on the development of sedimentary basins and depositional systems, especially the interaction between sedimentary and structural processes. |
Processes – Sedimentary processes studied include sediment production/input, sea-level changes and paleoclimate changes. Structural processes at the basin scale include genetic components of subsidence/uplift, intra-plate stress fields triggered by plate-tectonic reconfigurations and paleotemperature history.
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Approaches – Studies include both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Qualitative approaches to basin analysis use depositional geometries, stratal terminations, facies stacking patterns and bio-/chronostratigraphic data. Quantitative approaches to basin analysis include geostatistics (e.g. spectral analyses), flexural reverse modeling (subsidence components), forward basin modeling (stratigraphic simulation) and paleotemperature modeling.
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Temporal and spatial resolution – Temporal resolution covers sub-Milankovitch (4 ky), to 2nd order (up to 50 My) sedimentary and structural processes. Spatial resolution includes cyclostratigraphic analyses at centimeter-scale and basin analyses at the >100 km scale.
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Basin Types – Sedimentary basins and depositional systems studied are located in rift, strike-slip, foreland and passive continental margin settings. Ages range between late Paleozoic to Cenozoic.
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| Applications – Approaches and methodologies bear strong connections to economic geology, especially petroleum geology (basin and paleotemperature development, outcrop-analogue studies). |
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