@article{NeuharthBruneGlerumetal.2021,
  author    = {Neuharth, Derek and Brune, Sascha and Glerum, Anne and Morley, Chris K. and Yuan, Xiaoping and Braun, Jean},
  title     = {Flexural strike-slip basins},
  series = {Geology : a venture in earth science reporting / the Geological Society of America},
  volume    = {50},
  journal   = {Geology : a venture in earth science reporting / the Geological Society of America},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {American Institute of Physics},
  address   = {Boulder},
  issn      = {0091-7613},
  doi       = {10.1130/G49351.1},
  pages     = {361 -- 365},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Strike-slip faults are classically associated with pull-apart basins where continental crust is thinned between two laterally offset fault segments. We propose a subsidence mechanism to explain the formation of a new type of basin where no substantial segment offset or synstrike-slip thinning is observed. Such "flexural strike-slip basins" form due to a sediment load creating accommodation space by bending the lithosphere. We use a two-way coupling between the geodynamic code ASPECT and surface-processes code FastScape to show that flexural strike-slip basins emerge if sediment is deposited on thin lithosphere close to a strike slip fault. These conditions were met at the Andaman Basin Central fault (Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean), where seismic reflection data provide evidence of a laterally extensive flexural basin with a depocenter located parallel to the strike-slip fault trace.},
  language  = {en}
}