Recent tectonic activity in the South Barbados prism deep-towed side-scan sonar imagery

Tectonophysics

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 79-99

  Griboulard, R ^a   Bobier, C ^a   Faugeres J C ^a   Huyghe, P ^a   Gonthier, E ^a   Odonne, F ^b   Welsh, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Accretionary fold; Barbados prism; Diagenetic processes; Mud volcanoes; Present day deformations; Sonar imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002089801     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00164-9     Document Type: Article

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