Transition from foreland- to piggyback-basin deposition, plio-Pleistocene Upper Siwalik Group, Shinghar Range, NW Pakistan

Sedimentology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 631-646

  Pivnik, David A ^a   Khan, M Javed ^b  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; PIGGYBACK BASIN; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENTATION; UPLIFT; UPPER SIWALIK GROUP;

PAKISTAN, SHINGHAR RANGE;

EID: 0029729750     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1996.tb02018.x     Document Type: Article

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