Stratigraphy of the Fungurume Group - evolving foreland basin succession in the Lufilian fold-thurst belt, neoproterozoic-lower palaeozoic, Democractic Republic of Congo

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-34

  Wendorff, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGLOMERATE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHY; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; LUFILIAN ARC;

EID: 0041382278     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/1060017     Document Type: Article

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