Gravity anomalies, subsidence history and the tectonic evolution of the Malay and Penyu Basins (offshore Peninsular Malaysia)

Basin Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 375-392

  Madon, Mazlan B ^a,b   Watts, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; ISOSTASY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

MALAYSIA; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0032455905     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1998.00074.x     Document Type: Article

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