Importance of inherited rift margin structures in the early North Alpine Foreland Basin, Switzerland

Basin Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 425-442

  Lihou, Joanne C ^a,b   Allen, Philip A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 0001736179     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1996.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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