Fault-proximal stratigraphic record of episodic extension and oblique inversion, Bisbee basin, southwestern New Mexico, USA

Basin Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-270

  Bayona, Germán ^a   Lawton, Timothy F ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038205857     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2003.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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