Description:PART 1: THE FOUNDATIONS OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS.Chapter 1 Basins in their plate tectonic environmentChapter 2 The physical state of the lithospherePART 2: THE MECHANICS OF SEDIMENTARY BASIN FORMATION.Chapter 3 Basins due to lithospheric stretchingChapter 4 Basins due to flexureChapter 5 Effects of mantle dynamicsChapter 6 Basins associated with strike-slip deformationPART 3 THE SEDIMENTARY BASIN-FILL.Chapter 7 The sediment routing systemChapter 8 Basin stratigraphyChapter 9 Subsidence and thermal historyPART 4 APPLICATION TO PETROLEUM PLAY ASSESSMENT.Chapter 10 The petroleum playReferencesIndexДоп. информация: "This 2nd edition is certainly an awaited text book and a welcome update that can be recommended without any hesitation to both undergraduate and graduate students as well as the practitioner in the field." Journal of Soils and Sediments, November 2005