Significance of fan deltas without toe-sets within rift and piggy-back basins: Examples from the corinth graben and the mesohellenic trough, Central Greece

Sedimentology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 253-262

  Zelilidis, Abraham ^a   Kontopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOMSET; FAN DELTA; PIGGYBACK BASIN; RIFT BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

GREECE, CORINTH GRABEN;

EID: 0029770064     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1996.d01-3.x     Document Type: Article

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