The Highwood Structure: A tectonic wedge at the foreland edge of the southern Canadian Cordillera

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 215-232

  MacKay, Paul A ^a  

^a Morrison Petroleums Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFORMAL STACK; PLUNGE; TECTONIC WEDGE; THRUST;

CANADA, CANADIAN CORDILLERA, HIGHWOOD STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030449682     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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