Detachment faulting and petroleum prospectivity in the Rio Muni Basin, Equatorial Guinea, West Africa

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 153, Issue , 1999, Pages 303-320

  Turner, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DETACHMENT FAULT; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; RIFTING; TECTONICS;

EQUATORIAL GUINEA;

EID: 0033402236     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.19     Document Type: Article

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