Role of fault interactions in controlling synrift sediment dispersal patterns: Miocene, Abu Alaqa Group, Suez Rift, Sinai, Egypt

Basin Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-189

  Gupta, S ^a,c   Underbill, J R ^a   Sharp, I R ^b,d   Gawthorpe, R L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; FAULTING; RIFTING; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT;

EGYPT;

EID: 0033150040     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1999.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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