Quantitative analysis of Miocene to recent forearc basin evolution along the Colombian convergent margin

Basin Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 177-196

  Mountney, Nigel P ^a,b   Westbrook, Graham K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CONVERGENT MARGIN; FOREARC BASIN; NEOGENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 0031461507     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1997.00040.x     Document Type: Article

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