Complex thrusting at Uniondale, eastern sector of the Cape Fold Belt, Republic of South Africa: Structural evidence for the need to revise the lithostratigraphy

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 125-133

  Booth, P W K ^a   Shone, R W ^a  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVENT STRATIGRAPHY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033169114     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-5362(99)00084-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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