Flexural partitioning of the Late Archaean Witwatersrand foreland system, South Africa

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 141-142, Issue , 2001, Pages 95-112

  Catuneanu, Octavian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Back bulge; Basal (forebulge) unconformity; Flexural wavelength; Forebulge; Foredeep; Foreland system

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; FLEXURE; FORELAND BASIN; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0004590476     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00070-7     Document Type: Article

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