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unusual facts about sedimentary basin



Pennine Basin

The Pennine Basin is a sedimentary basin which was active during the Carboniferous Period and which reached from the Southern Uplands of Scotland in the north to the former Wales-London-Brabant Massif in the English Midlands to the south.

Seuil du Poitou

The Seuil du Poitou is a geological denomination for an area in western central France where the Paris (Northeast) and Aquitaine (Southwest) sedimentary basins meet, and which also is a gap between the ancient mountain ranges Massif Armoricain (Northwest) and the Massif Central (Southeast).

Widmerpool Gulf

The Widmerpool Gulf is a name given to a sedimentary basin that existed as an area of open water during the Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian Age).


see also

Baldonnel

Baldonnel Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Horseshoe Canyon

Horseshoe Canyon Formation, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

Kiskatinaw

Kiskatinaw Formation, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Mannville

Mannville Group, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Muskiki

Muskiki Formation, a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Shaunavon

Shaunavon Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin