Fig.2. – An illustration of basins in a collisional set up (Source –
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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.