Concept and styles of reciprocal stratigraphies: Western Canada foreland system

Terra Nova

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Catuneanu, Octavian ^a,b,c   Sweet, Arthur R ^a   Miall, Andrew D ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

CANADA;

EID: 0033385051     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1999.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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