Structural segmentation, inversion, and salt tectonics on a passive margin: Evolution of the Inner Kwanza Basin, Angola

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1222-1244

  Hudec, Michael R ^a   Jackson, Martin P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Angola; Basement tectonics; Kwanza Basin; Passive margins; Salt tectonics; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL SEGMENTATION;

CATCHMENTS; SALTS;

GEOLOGY;

BASEMENT ROCK; INVERSION TECTONICS; PASSIVE MARGIN; PERMIAN; SALT TECTONICS; SEGMENTATION; TRIASSIC;

ANGOLA;

EID: 0036810973     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1222:SSIAST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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