Conclusions
The continental masses of the craton are affected by different structural disturbances due to extensional and collisional setups. It is with reference to the occurrence of normal and thrust faults. The amount of strike-slip components can vary. In the realm of the present study, therefore, I have addressed the continental setups in a short and descriptive way with the help of existing literatures. A simple association of intracratonic sag basin, rift basin and passive margin basin is proposed in an extensional set up and a trench, forearc, back-arc and foreland basin is proposed for a collisional set up in active margins. As Nature is not uniform, these models can just serve as a generalized idea but hypotheses keep coming.
However, the role of tectonics never really ends here and plays an important part in a marine setup where sea levels, sediment supply and their rates differ causing events of transgression and regression and sediment accumulation leading to different depositional tracts. Accomodation discussed in sequence stratigraphy in sedimentary basins refers to the vertical space available for sediments to fill in. Tectonic activity, sea level & sediment supply are some important parameters that will govern the events of transgression & regression, in marine setups.