Quantitative subsidence analysis of the Mesozoic evolution of the Lusitanian basin (western Iberian margin)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 493-507

  Stapel, Gerco ^a   Cloetingh, Sierd ^a   Pronk, Bert ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Rua Do Vale de Pereiro 4 ^*  (Portugal)

Author keywords

Basin subsidence; Iberia; Mesozoic; Passive margins; Tectonophysics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002156768     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00203-X     Document Type: Article

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