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The Bongor Basin is a Cretaceous-Cenozoic continental rift basin formed on Precambrian crystalline basement rock. Sedimentation and filling of the rifts in the Early Cretaceous basin were controlled and influenced by multiple diverse factors, including long-term weathering, planation and denudation, high-angle boundary faults, and a strike-slip tectonic setting, large basement faults, and the activity of newly formed faults.
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Dou, L., Xiao, K., Wang, J. (2023). Characteristics of Lower Cretaceous Strata, Reservoirs, and Seals. In: Petroleum Geology and Exploration of the Bongor Basin. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2673-0_4
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