Geometry of supra-prism basins of southern Barbados wedge;Géométrie des bassins du prisme Sud Barbade

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 345-359

  Huyghe, Pascale ^a   Griboulard, Roger ^a   Faugères, Jean Claude ^a   Gonthier, Eliane ^a   Bobier, Claude ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Decollement; Depocentre migration; Inherited structures of oceanic basement; Piggy back basin; Southern Barbados Prism

Indexed keywords

BASINS; DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; DEFORMATIONS; DEPOCENTRE MIGRATION; PIGGYBACK BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; THRUSTING; TILTING; ACCRETIONARY PRISMS; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOCENTRES; PIGGY- BACK BASINS; SUPRA-PRISM;

ATLANTIC, BARBADOS ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ATLANTIC, BARBADOS WEDGE;

EID: 0029668740     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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