Senonian basin inversion and rejuvenation of rifting in Africa and Arabia: Synthesis and implications to plate-scale tectonics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 39-82

  Guiraud, René ^a   Bosworth, William ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b Marathon Petroleum Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Africa; Arabia; Basin inversion; End Cretaceous event; Plate scale tectonics; Santonian event; Senonian rifting

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; RIFTING; SENONIAN; TECTONIC INVERSION;

AFRICA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0031405166     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00212-6     Document Type: Article

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