The dynamics of foreland basin carbonate platforms: Tectonic and eustatic controls

Basin Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 409-416

  Galewsky, Joseph ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; EUSTACY; FORELAND BASIN; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0032461281     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1998.00079.x     Document Type: Article

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