Crustal accretion beneath the Koyna coastal region (India) and late Cretaceous geodynamics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 285-297

  Singh, A P ^a   Mall, D M ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; GEODYNAMICS; UNDERPLATING;

INDIA;

EID: 0032580655     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00053-5     Document Type: Article

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