“…Outcrop examples include several Grès d'Annot mini-basins of the French Alpine foreland basin (Sinclair, 2000;McCaffrey and Kneller, 2001;Amy et al, 2007); the Taveyannaz sandstone in the "Inner" sub-basin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin, Eastern Switzerland (Sinclair, 1992); the intra-slope mini-basin in the Tres Pasos Formation in the Magallanes foreland Basin, southern Chile (Shultz and Hubbard, 2005); the Apennine satellite basins (Ricci Lucchi, 1986, 1990, such as the Deruta wedge top basin (Conti et al, 2008) in Northern Italy; and the sub-basins in the Southern Pyrenean foreland basin, Spain (Ardèvol et al, 2000). Subsurface examples include piggyback basins of the Upper Puchkirchen Formation in the Upper Austrian Molasse Basin (Covault et al, 2009). These mini-basins are often enclosed, generally crescent to elliptical shaped, and initially filled with relatively unconfined turbidite lobes developed on the basin floor.…”