Triangle zone and thrust wedge geometries related to evaporitic horizons (southern Pyrenees)

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 375-384

  Sans, M ^a,b   Munoz J A ^a   Verges J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Suria K SA Sales y Potasas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORITE; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; TERTIARY; THRUST WEDGE; TRIANGLE ZONE;

SPAIN, PYRENEES;

EID: 0030452527     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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