Understanding basement tectonics of a interior cratonic basin: southern Illinois Basin, USA

Tectonophysics

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 1-20

  McBride, John H ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN; CRATON; SEISMOTECTONICS; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES, ILLINOIS BASIN;

EID: 0031733138     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00081-X     Document Type: Article

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