Chapter 21 Neogene intraplate deformation of the caribbean plate at the beata ridge

Sedimentary Basins of the World

Volumn 4, Issue C, 1999, Pages 627-669

  Mauffret, Alain ^a   Leroy, Sylvie ^a  

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