Basement reactivation in a sub-Andean foreland flexural bulge: The Pantanal wetland, SW Brazil

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-39

  Ussami, Naomi ^a   Shiraiwa, Shozo ^b   Dominguez, José Maria Landim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FLEXURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0033015110     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC900004     Document Type: Article

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