Sedimentary response to intra-arc extension: controls on Oligo-Miocene deposition, Sarcidano sub-basin, Sardinia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 491-508

  Sowerbutts, A A ^a   Underhill, J R ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSION; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; RIFTING; SEDIMENTATION;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

EID: 0031865729     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.155.3.0491     Document Type: Article

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