# Depocenter

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A '''depocenter''' or '''depocentre''' in geology is the part of a [sedimentary basin](/source/sedimentary_basin) where a particular rock unit has its maximum thickness.<ref name="Schlumberger">{{Cite web |url=http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/en/Terms/d/depocenter.aspx |title=depocenter |last=Schlumberger |series=Oilfield Glossary}}</ref> Depending on the controls on subsidence and the [sedimentary environment](/source/sedimentary_environment), the location of a basin's depocenter may vary with time, such as in active [rift](/source/rift) basins as [extensional fault](/source/extensional_fault)s grow, link or become abandoned.<ref name="Cowie_etal_2000">{{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 }}</ref>

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