Deep-water, salt-cored foldbelts: Lessons from the mississippi fan and perdido foldbelts, northern Gulf of Mexico

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 115, Issue , 2000, Pages 173-191

  Rowan, Mark G ^a   Trudgill, Bruce D ^b   Carl Fiduk, J ^c  

^a Rowan Structural Consulting   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0038749076     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM115p0173     Document Type: Chapter

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