Piggyback basin
A piggyback basin (also piggy-back, thrust-sheet-top, detached, or satellite basin) is a minor
hanging wall ramp of the older thrust sheet, from the foreland orogeny
or from the sides of the basin. Drainage into the basin may come from highs associated with the thrust sheets or the basin may be filled from longitudinal flows across the basin.
The
tectonics and occurrence of piggyback basins.[1] The Tannheim-Losenstein basin in the Eastern Alps is also a piggyback basin system.[2]
See also
- Molasse basin – Foreland basin north of the Alps
References
- Allen, Philip A. and Allen, John R. (2005) Basin Analysis: Principles and Applications, 2nd ed., Blackwell Publishing, 549 pp.
- Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, Andrew Goudie (Editor), ISBN 041527298X, Routledge, 2013
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