| Description | Working file entitled 'Sedimentary Basins North Sea', relating to the paper: McKenzie, D, "The variation of temperature with time and hydrocarbon maturation in sedimentary basins formed by extension", 'Earth and Planetary Science Letters', vol 55 (1981), pp87-98.
Comprises: Manuscript notes & partial drafts, plots, equations*, mostly by McKenzie, [n.d.]; photocopies, offprints and preprints of academic papers by others on related subjects, 1971-1980; simple, small cardboard models of circular listric faults*, [n.d.]; printed programme and abstracts, briefly annotated by McKenzie, for the Royal Society meeting 'Extensional Tectonics Associated with Convergent Plate Boundaries', 19-20 March 1980, [McKenzie acted as chair during one of the sessions], also and full paper of 'Tertiary structural development of selected valleys based on seismic data: Basin and Range Province, northeastern Nevada', by Effimoff and Pinesich, and two sets of calculations on 'initial subsidence' by John Sclater; letter from Kevin Burke, Professor of Geology and Chairman, Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, New York, USA, encloses a copy of his paper "The Chad Basin: an active intra-continental basin", 'Tectonophysics, vol 36 (1976), pp198-206, and a simple table demonstrating that rifting follows basining events in an irregular manner, 19 February 1979. |