The stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Dzereg Basin, western Mongolia: Clastic sedimentation, transpressional faulting and basin destruction in an intraplate, intracontinental setting

Basin Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-72

  Howard, J P ^a   Cunningham, W D ^a   Davies, S J ^a   Dijkstra, A H ^a   Badarch, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; FAULTING; MESOZOIC; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 0037339909     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2003.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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