Editing Sedimentary basin (section)

== Classification == 
A dozen or so common types of sedimentary basins are widely recognized and several classification schemes are proposed, however no single classification scheme is recognized as the standard.<ref name=Ingersoll2011/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dickinson |first1=W.R. |title=Tectonics and Sedimentation |date=1974 |website=Semantic Scholar |doi=10.2110/pec.74.22.0001 |s2cid=129203900}}</ref><ref name="Dickinson, 1976">{{cite journal |last1=Dickinson |first1=William R. |title=Sedimentary basins developed during evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic arc–trench system in western North America |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |date=1 September 1976 |volume=13 |issue=9 |pages=1268–1287 |doi=10.1139/e76-129|bibcode=1976CaJES..13.1268D }}</ref><ref name="Bally and Snelson, 1980">{{cite journal |last1=Bally |first1=A.W. |last2=Snelson |first2=S. |title=Realms of Subsidence |journal=Facts and Principles of World Petroleum Occurrence — Memoir 6 |date=1980 |pages=9–94 |url=https://archives.datapages.com/data/cspg_sp/data/006/006001/9_cspgsp0060009.htm}}</ref><ref name="Klemme 1980"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kingston |first1=D.R. |last2=Dishroon |first2=C.P. |last3=Williams |first3=P.A. |title=Global Basin Classification System |journal=AAPG Bulletin |date=1983 |volume=67 |issue=12 |pages=2175–2193 |doi=10.1306/AD460936-16F7-11D7-8645000102C1865D}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ingersoll |first1=Raymond V. |title=Tectonics of sedimentary basins |journal=GSA Bulletin |date=1988 |volume=100 |issue=11 |pages=1704–1719 |doi=10.1130/0016-7606(1988)100<1704:TOSB>2.3.CO;2 |bibcode=1988GSAB..100.1704I |s2cid=130951328 |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/100/11/1704/182052/Tectonics-of-sedimentary-basins}}</ref><ref name="AllenPA2013">{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=P. A. |title=Basin analysis : principles and application to petroleum play assessment |date=2013 |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |location=Chichester, West Sussex, UK |isbn=978-0-470-67377-5 |edition=3rd}}</ref>

Most sedimentary basin classification schemes are based on one or more of these interrelated criteria: 
* ''Plate tectonic setting'' - the proximity to a divergent, convergent or transform plate tectonic boundary and the type and origin of the tectonically-induced forces that cause a basin to form, specifically those active at the time of active sedimentation in the basin.<ref name="Dickinson1974SEPM" /><ref name="Dickinson, 1976" /><ref name="BusbyIngersoll" /><ref name="Ingersoll2011" />
* ''Nature of underlying crust'' - basins formed on [[continental crust]] are quite different from those formed on [[oceanic crust]] as the two types of [[lithosphere]] have very different mechanical characteristics ([[rheology]]) and different densities, which means they respond differently to isostasy. 
* ''[[Geodynamics]] of basin formation'' - the mechanical and thermal forces that cause lithosphere to subside to form a basin.<ref name="Bally and Snelson, 1980" />
* ''Petroleum/economic potential'' - basin characteristics that influence the likelihood for the basin to have an accumulations of petroleum or the manner in which it formed.<ref name="AllenPA2013" />