Table of Contents

Methods of study: introduction to methods of study; role of well-logging in the study of sedimentary basins; seismic stratigraphy; method of quantitative study of subsidence. Basin dynamic: examples; an example of platform sedimentation: the Saharan Cambro-Ordovician; sedimentary dynamics of the epicontinental platform: Middle Cretaceous of the Algero-Tunisian Sahara; carbonate platforms: Middle Jurassic Paris Basin; evolution of the Paris Basin; Permian coal basin of Aumance: intramontane basin under extension by reactivated faults; the Suez Rift and the North-Western Red Sea Neogene sedimentation and tectonic evolution; geological evolution and petroleum characters of a passive margin: case of the lower Congo-Gabon basin; geodynamic framework and singularity of sedimentation in oceanic basins: example of the Atlantic and the Tethys; the South-East basin; Swiss Molasse basin; active margins and their basins: example of the forearc Antilles region; genesis and evolution of sedimentary basins in a band of compressional transcurrent faults: example of Neogene betic basins (Spain); evolution of sedimentary basins of a transform margin: examples of Southern California; deltas and deltaic basins; conclusion and synthesis.