Diachronous rifting, drifting, and inversion on the passive margin of central eastern North America: an analog for other passive margins

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 5 A, 1998, Pages 817-835

  Withjack, Martha Oliver ^a   Schlische, Roy W ^b   Olsen, Paul E ^c  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFT DRIFT TRANSITION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFT-DRIFT MODEL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032076794     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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