Polyphase deformation in a fore-arc/back-arc basin, Salin subbasin, Myanmar (Burma)

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1837-1856

  Pivnik, D A ^a   Nahm, J ^a,c   Tucker, R S ^a   Smith, G O ^a   Nyein, K ^b   Nyunt, M ^b   Maung, P H ^b  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise   (Myanmar)

^c Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC FAULTS; GEOLOGIC FOLDS; POLYPHASE DEFORMATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

DEFORMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

BACKARC BASIN; DEFORMATION; EXTENSION; FOREARC BASIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TERTIARY; TRANSPRESSION;

MYANMAR;

EID: 0032194489     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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