Growth stratal records of instantaneous and progressive limb rotation in the Precordillera thrust belt and Bermejo basin, Argentina

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1065-1083

  Zapata, Tomás R ^a   Allmendinger, Richard W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GROWTH TRIANGLE; LIMB ROTATION; THRUST;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 0030423469     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC00431     Document Type: Article

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