depocenter

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A depocenter or depocentre in geology is the part of a sedimentary basin where a particular rock unit has its maximum thickness.{{Cite web |url=http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/en/Terms/d/depocenter.aspx |title=depocenter |last=Schlumberger |series=Oilfield Glossary}} Depending on the controls on subsidence and the sedimentary environment, the location of a basin's depocenter may vary with time, such as in active rift basins as extensional faults grow, link or become abandoned.{{Cite journal |last1=Cowie P.A.|authorlink1=Patience Cowie |last2=Gupta S. |last3=Dawers N.H. |year=2000 |title=Implications of fault array evolution for synrift depocentre development: insights from a numerical fault growth model |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227644287 |journal=Basin Research |volume=12 |issue=3–4 |pages=241–261 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2117.2000.00126.x|bibcode=2000BasR...12..241C |s2cid=128836866 }}