Spillover models for axial rivers in regions of continental extension: The Rio Mimbres and Rio Grande in the southern Rio Grande rift, USA

Sedimentology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 637-652

  Mack, Greg H ^a   Love, David W ^b   Seager, William R ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SPILLOVER BASIN;

USA, NEW MEXICO, RIO GRANDE; USA, NEW MEXICO, RIO MIMBRES;

EID: 0030796747     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1997.d01-49.x     Document Type: Article

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