Structure of the Alice anticline, Papua New Guinea: Serial balanced cross-sections and their restoration

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 719-734

  Mason, R A ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOMORPHOLOGY;

ANTICLINES; BASEMENT INVOLVEMENT; THIN SKINNED THRUSTING;

TECTONICS;

BALANCED CROSS SECTION; FOLD; PALINSPASTIC RESTORATION; THIN SKINNED TECTONICS; THRUSTING;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA, ALICE ANTICLINE;

EID: 0031148076     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(96)00114-9     Document Type: Article

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