Basement high

{{short description|Portion of the basement in a sedimentary basin that is higher than its surroundings}} [[File:WealdBasinCrossSection.png|thumb|300px|Cross section of the Weald in England. A basement high (the Hampshire-Dieppe High) can be seen in the centre-left.]] In geology, a '''basement high''' is a portion of the basement in a sedimentary basin that is higher than its surroundings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bre.12448|author=David C. P. Peacock and Graham J. Banks|date=24 January 2022|title=Evolution of the geological structure and mechanical properties due to the collision of multiple basement topographic highs in a forearc accretionary wedge: insights from numerical simulations}}</ref> Commonly, basement highs are hidden by the sedimentary fill of the basin. Usually basement highs are elongated features of tectonic origin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://progearthplanetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40645-021-00461-4|author=Ayumu Miyakawa, Atsushi Noda & Hiroaki Koge |date=11 March 2020|title=Progress in Earth and Planetary Science volume 9, Article number: 1 }}</ref>

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