Mechanisms that can generate sufficient subsidence to create basins:
Crustal thinning extensional stretching, erosion during uplift, and magmatic withdrawal
Mantle-lithospheric thickening cooling of lithosphere following either cessation of stretching or heating due to adiabatic melting or rise of asthenospheric melts
Sedimentary and volcanic loading local isostatic compensation of crust and regional lithospheric flexure, dependent on flexural rigidity of lithosphere, during sedimentation and volcanism
Tectonic loading local isostatic compensation of crust and regional lithospheric flexure, dependent on flexural rigidity of underlying lithosphere, during overthrusting and/or underpulling
Subcrustal loading lithospheric flexure during underthrusting of dense lithosphere
Asthenospheric flow dynamic effects of asthenospheric flow, commonly due to descent or delamination of subducted lithosphere
Crustal densification increased density of crust due to changing pressure/temperature conditions and/or emplacement of higher-density melts into lower-density crust
Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (5th ed.), Sam Boggs, Jr.
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