The Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin: Sedimentary and tectonic structure from multichannel seismic data

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 62-69

  Lamarche, G ^a   Basile, C ^b   Mascle, J ^c   Sage, F ^c  

^a ORSTOM   (France)

^b Institut Dolomieu   (France)

^c Lab de Geodynam Sous marine   (France)

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EID: 0001936484     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00007209     Document Type: Article

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