Comparer des méthodes

	Analyse de l'affaissement des bassins	Corrélation stratigraphique
Domaine	Géosciences	Géosciences
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1978	1901
Auteur d'origine	McKenzie and Sclater	Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner
Type	tectono-sedimentary analysis pipeline	stratigraphic analysis pipeline
Source fondatrice	Sclater, J. G., & Christie, P. A. F. (1980). Continental stretching: An explanation of the post-mid-Cretaceous subsidence of the Central North Sea Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research, 85(B7), 3711–3739.	Catuneanu, O. (2002). Sequence Stratigraphy of Clastic Systems. Geological Association of Canada.
Alias	tectonic subsidence, backstripping, thermal history analysis	lithostratigraphic correlation, chronostratigraphic correlation, sequence correlation
Apparentées	4	5
Résumé	Basin subsidence analysis is the quantitative study of how sedimentary basins deepen over geological time, driven by tectonics, isostasy, and load. Formalized by McKenzie (1978) and Sclater and Christie (1980), this method reveals the mechanical causes of basin development, predicts subsurface temperature and pressure histories, and constrains petroleum generation. Analysis integrates well stratigraphy, seismic geometry, gravity data, and thermal models to reconstruct basin evolution.	Stratigraphic correlation is the practice of identifying equivalent rock layers or chronostratigraphic units across space by tracing physical or chemical signatures. Rooted in 19th-century work on Alpine glacial sequences, this method was formalized in the 20th century by geologists like Vail who unified global sea-level change with depositional sequences. Correlation is foundational to basin-scale understanding of sediment transport, resource distribution, and paleoenvironmental change.