Tectonic insights from an Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous stretched-clast conglomerate, Caborca-Altar region, Sonora, Mexico

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 453-474

  Nourse, J A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altar Formation; Conglomerate; Faults; Tectonic

Indexed keywords

CONGLOMERATE; FAULT; MESOZOIC; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

MEXICO;

EID: 0034764966     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-9811(01)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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