Interactions of growing folds and coeval depositional systems

Basin Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 199-223

  Burbank, Douglas ^a   Meigs, Andrew ^a   Brozović, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001433535     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1996.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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