Sedimentary basins form primarily in convergent, divergent and transform settings.
In this steel basin formed over time crystals from a boiling solution.
According to these authors, a small rim from Euramerica rifted off when this basin formed.
The basins in which it was deposited formed during the formation and breakup of Pangea.
The basin formed at the same time as the Karoo Supergroup, and is around 310 to 180 million years old.
The basin itself forms a petroleum province.
Other smaller basins of similar type have formed at minor offsets along the Hope River segment.
The retaining basin of the dam forms the artificial Lake Sélingué.
When such basins form, the thinning of the crust causes uplift immediately adjacent to the basin.
A sedimentary basin, which is now buried under the continental shelves, formed during the Cretaceous.