1 Introduction Basin analysis is an integrated study of sedimentary basins as geodynamical entities. Sedimentary basins are worthy of studying because they are primary repositories of geological information on subsidence, crust evolution and valuable clues to the way by which the lithosphere deforms (Philip and Jone, 2002). Although relatively successive sedimentary sequences from Jurassic to Cretaceous are preserved in western Shandong, the Mesozoic deposits and basins have received a litt…