Cyclicity and basin axis shift in a piggybank basin: towards modelling of the Eocene Tremp-Ager Basin, South Pyrenees, Spain

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 134, Issue , 1998, Pages 135-162

  Nijman, Wouter ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CYCLICITY; FORELAND BASIN; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

SPAIN;

EID: 0032323280     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.134.01.07     Document Type: Article

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