Growth fault
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Growth faults are syndepositional or syn-sedimentary extensional faults that initiate and evolve at the margins of continental plates. They extend parallel to passive margins that have high sediment s
Fig. 1. Sketch showing a well-developed growth fault and accompanying structures.
Figure 2. Sketch showing evolution stages of three growth faults. The black arrow shows the direction of evolution.
Fig. 3. Seismic line showing sedimentary layers, footwall and hanging wall of a growth fault: Modified after Bjerkvik, 2012
Sedimentary basin
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Sedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to form a large three-dimensional body of sediment
Typical rift formation in cross-section
Schematic cross-section of a typical convergent plate boundary showing formation of back-arc and forearc basins
Trench fill sedimentary basin in the context of a convergent plate boundary
Shematic diagram of a strike-slip tectonic setting with fault bends creating areas of transtension and transpression