The modern foreland basin system adjacent to the Central Andes

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 895-898

  Horton, Brian K ^a   DeCelles, Peter G ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

AVERAGE ELEVATION; BOUGUER GRAVITY; CENOZOIC DEPOSITS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LATE CRETACEOUS; PANTANAL WETLAND; REGIONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT THICKNESS;

DEPOSITS;

ACTIVE FAULT; BOUGUER ANOMALY; CENOZOIC; ELEVATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; OROGENIC BELT; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; BASIN ARCHITECTURE;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031399509     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0895:TMFBSA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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