Fig.2. – An illustration of basins in a collisional set up (Source – google images)
As suggested by Coleman, J.L., Jr., and Cahan, S.M., 2012 in USGs report, foreland basins are very common and can occur adjacent to decollement fault thrust and fold belts and basement-cored anticlinal uplifts. They can be typically elongated and parallel to almost elliptical in the latter case. They are caused by depressions caused by the weight of a large mountain range pushing the adjacent crust below sea level. Borderland basins are those basins that form along the margins of a continent as a result of transtensional and transpressional faulting associated with the oblique collision of tectonic plates. They form at major bends along the collisional boundary. The combination of basin forming (transtensional faulting) and mountain forming (transpressional faulting) produces relatively small basins and uplifts along the plate boundary. Transtensional/transpressional basins are those basins that form at the margins of continents, typically along plate tectonic boundaries. These plate boundaries appear to have substantially fewer bends than those boundaries that produce borderland basins and associated uplifts. Transtensional/transpressional basins form along both restraining and releasing bends and may be completely surrounded by faults (Coleman, J.L., Jr., and Cahan, S.M., 2012). Pure strike-slip components can lead to strike-slip basins in other scenarios.