Hello Ijaz.....I am not sure that I understand your question.  Are you asking for an example of normal faulting associated with the development of a foreland basin, or an example of a foreland basin that developed in an area that was formerly the site of a rift?

Thanks David for a reply. I mean the Himalayan Foreland from northern Pakistan and India.  I also mean the second part of your question "or an example of a foreland basin that developed in an area that was formerly the site of a rift".

Ijaz....I have never worked in this part of the world, but we are working on what may be an older analog in the Lake Superior region.  The 1.1 Ga Midcontinent rift evolved into what can be considered a foreland basin during the Genville Orogeny.  We are not quite ready to submit for publication as yet, but if you send me your email, I can send you an advanced draft.

Good luck,

Dave Malone

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Ijaz,

The process you are describing is fairly common along the Tethyan margin that has been colliding with Eurasia (and other terranes) since the Cretaceous. For example the Arabian foreland (Persian gulf) is a reactivated Triassic (?) margin that is now a foreland basin. This is a good summary of the Arabian basin:

http://www.sepmstrata.org/page.aspx?pageid=133

Also, the Levant margin (Lebanon, Israel, Egypt) is an Early Mesozoic (Triassic-Jurassic?) rift with highly extended crust that has been the site of compression in late Cretaceous (~80-65 Ma) and in the Oligocene-Miocene (25-15 Ma) known regionally as the Syrian Arc (I and II) events. The Midcontinent rift mentioned by Dave is another example that is much older, indicating that the process has applicable throughout large parts of Earth's history (rather than a "modern" phenomenon). 

Typically there are structural aspects of tectonically inverted extensional basins such as the normal faults get reactivated as thrust faults when they are oriented favorably. 

Best,

Alex

Hi Ijaz, 

As Alexandros Konstantinou said there are numerous examples of former rifting that are now below compressive constraints. The Mediterranean Basin is an amazing playfield for that.

The Western Tyrrhenian Basin is a nice example of passive margin that now locally undergoes compressive constraints that potentially reflect a start of inversion (Have a look on figs 11 and 13 of this paper for instance: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195113007476). 

For more examples I also recommend the works of Prof. Gianreto Manatschal and collaborators about former passive margins now involved in building mountains (e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301506114_Dominant_role_of_rift_inheritance_in_mountain_building_revealed_by_waveform_inversion) and Dr. Maria Druet about inversion of the Spanish margin (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301546071_Deep_crustal_structure_and_continent-ocean_boundary_along_the_Galicia_continental_margin_NW_Iberia).

Good Luck!

Gaël

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Hi Ijaz Ahmad,

I dont understand your question.

Exist an article about development of Normal Faults within Alpine Foreland Basin from Hartmann, et al. 2016. Check this publication.

Dear Ijaz,

Check this publication on tectonics of Ganga Plain Foreland Basin.

Good Luck!

Pre and Syn collisional normal faults are common in the Foreland Basins. Examples include foreland Basins of Zagros Fold-thrust belt in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey;  the Arkoma Basin, in Oklahoma and the Appalachian Foreland basins in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama in the U.S.A

Yes, you can use Free Air Anomaly map for the study area. if you see a pair of positive and negative values, and negative values corresponds to the location of the basin and positive values for the wedge, then it is a foreland basin. If the basin is related to the thinning of crust due to an extensional system, then  the basin displays positive Free Air Anomaly values that is because Moho is shallow and gravity anomaly is large!