Last edited 27 Oct 2025

Basin inversion

Green infrastructure and open environments: London’s foundations: protecting the geodiversity of the capital, Supplementary Planning Guidance, published by the Mayor of London in March 2012, defines basin inversion as: ‘…the process whereby a sedimentary basin is uplifted and partially extruded. This uplifting is a result of crustal shortening and fault reactivation.’

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