West-northwest directed obduction of the Batain Group on the eastern Oman continental margin at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 148-160

  Schreurs, Guido ^a   Immenhauser, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; OBDUCTION;

OMAN;

EID: 0033009812     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC900020     Document Type: Article

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