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In geology, a basin is a region where subsidence generates accommodation space for the deposition of sediments. A pull-apart basin is a structural basin where two overlapping (en echelon) strike-slip faults or a fault bend create an area of crustal extension undergoing tension, which causes the basin to sink down. Frequently, the basins are rhombic or sigmoidal in shape. Dimensionally, basins are limited to the distance between the faults and the length of overlap.[1]
- ^ Frisch, Wolfgang, Martin Meschede, and Ronald C. Blakey. Plate tectonics: Continental drift and mountain building. Springer, 2010. ISBN 978-3540765035 [page needed]