Lacustrine fan-deltaic sedimentation in a Proterozoic rift basin: The Sopa-Brumadinho Tectonosequence, southeastern Brazil

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 65-96

  Martins Neto, M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; FAN DELTA; LAKE; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC;

BRAZIL, MINAS GERAIS, SERRA DO ESPINHACO;

EID: 0030456110     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00152-2     Document Type: Article

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