A composite kinematic planform model has been developed to look for stratigraphic signatures that reflect the dominant influence of one of these basin controlling processes or the interaction among several processes. The surface processes model couples diffusive and advective transports to erode, redistribute and deposit material.
Orographic rainfall is determined by topography, extraction efficiency and vapour flux.
The isostasy model uses either an elastic or a thermally activated linear viscoelastic plate rheology to flexurally compensate for changes in orogenic, sedimentary and water loads. Eustasy is uniform change in model sea level. The effects of basin setting, along-strike changes in tectonics, prevailing 'wind' direction and feedback among processes on the rates of orogen growth and basin filling are discussed. Stratigraphy is shown as facies bounded by chronostratigraphic and erosional surfaces. Facies are described by characteristics of the model's depositional environments.