Applications of spectral stratigraphy to upper cretaceous and tertiary rocks in Southern Mexico: Tertiary graben control on volcanism

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1371-1378

  Jansma, Pamela E ^a   Lang, Harold R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAINOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; GRABEN; LANDSAT TM; REMOTE SENSING; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC CONTROL; TECTONICS; TERTIARY; VOLCANISM;

MEXICO;

EID: 0030303474     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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