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Models of tectonic history provide a framework for understanding the history of each phase of basin development. A tectonostratigraphic phase is a period of basin evolution during which tectonic and stratigraphic elements resulted in a specific configuration of depositional and deformational elements, many of which were critical to the evolution of the basin's [[petroleum system]]. The tectonostratigraphic history for a basin is usually portrayed in a time series of cross sections, showing the geologic elements of each phase. Because all basins are three dimensional, care must be taken to assemble enough cross sections to depict basin history accurately.

Models of tectonic history provide a framework for understanding the history of each phase of basin development. A tectonostratigraphic phase is a period of basin evolution during which tectonic and stratigraphic elements resulted in a specific configuration of depositional and deformational elements, many of which were critical to the evolution of the basin's [[petroleum system]]. The tectonostratigraphic history for a basin is usually portrayed in a time series of [[cross section]]s, showing the geologic elements of each phase. Because all basins are three dimensional, care must be taken to assemble enough cross sections to depict basin history accurately.

==Example: the GOM basin==

==Example: the GOM basin==

==See also==

==See also==

* [[Assessing the impact of tectonics]]

* [[Cross section]]

* [[Structural maps and cross sections]]

* [[Making regional tectonic maps]]

* [[Making regional tectonic maps]]

* [[Making regional structural cross sections]]

* [[Making regional structural cross sections]]