This book provides a comprehensive introduction to techniques for quantitative subsidence
analysis and visualization with example applications. Subsidence analysis is an essential step
to understand basin evolution through geologic time and space in the study of sediments and
sedimentary basins. Quantifying techniques have been developed and applied in many basin
research projects to evaluate total tectonic and thermal subsidence. They are also a
pre-requisite for basin evolution modelling. Recent studies have applied visualization
techniques to understand regional subsidence contexts and trends which confirmed that
three-dimensional visualization of the basin subsidence is highly helpful to gain insight into
basin evolution. In this book we show how geoscience and computer science can be effectively
combined in advanced basin analysis especially in terms of basin subsidence. Each type of
subsidence analysis is introduced with example applications. In particular we present a study
of the Vienna basin using BasinVis a MATLAB-based program for analyzing and visualizing basin
subsidence. Given its breadth of coverage this book will benefit students in undergraduate and
postgraduate courses and provide helpful information for research projects and industry
applications.
