Subsidence analyses from the Betic Cordillera, southeast Spain

Basin Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-21

  Hanne, D ^a   White, Nicky ^a   Lonergan, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MESOZOIC; RIFTING; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE;

SPAIN;

EID: 0037343167     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2003.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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