Crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the Sergipe-Alagoas and Jacuípe basins, offshore northeastern Brazil

Tectonophysics

Volumn 288, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 199-220

  Mohriak, Webster Ueipass ^a   Bassetto, Marcelo ^a   Vieira, Ines Santos ^a  

^a Institute Brasileiro de Petróleo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crustal architecture; Deep seismic; Jacu pe Basin; Sergipe Aalagoas Basin; Tectonic evolution northeastern Brazil

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC, (SOUTH);

EID: 0031870501     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00294-1     Document Type: Article

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