Basin-range transition and basin-and mountain-building processes

The basin system and orogenic system are believed to be two essential tectonic units within the continental lithosphere, including pre-existing but now extinct basins, oceans and landmasses in geologic record. The researches on the basin-range transition thus be-come the frontiers of continental geology. In this paper, thd spatio-temporal evolutionary processes and self-evolutional sequences in oceanic and continental environments are probed on the basis of basin analysis and outcrop sequence stratigraphy. Another key prob-lem in the studies of the basin-range transition is the construction of the isochronous stratigraphic framework. The isochronism of sequences should encompass sequence bound-aries (simple or compound) sequences and time losses.