tectonosequence

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noun

A sequence of tectonofacies that provides evidence of previous tectonic movement.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

nountectonosequence (plural tectonosequences)

plural tectonosequences

  1. geographyA sequence of tectonofacies that provides evidence of previous tectonic movement.

    First, a Paleogene foredeep tectonosequence accumulated until the early Miocene.

    2010, Claudio Bartolini, Juan Rogelio Roman Ramos, Petroleum Systems in the Southern Gulf of Mexico, page 2
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    The stratigraphic hierarchy of tectonofacies, tectonofacies associations and tectonosequences is informally attributed herein as the sedimentary response to discrete episodes of faulting and associated basin margin collapse that released large volumes of coarse debris downslope.

    2020 July 14, Kirsten Kennedy, Nick Eyles, “Syn-rift mass flow generated 'tectonofacies' and 'tectonosequences' of the Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley, California, and their bearing on supposed Neoproterozoic panglacial climates”, in Sedimentology, volume 68, number 1, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, published January 2021, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 369
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