Neotectonic regime on the passive continental margin of the northern South China Sea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 311, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 113-138

  Lüdmann, Thomas ^a   Wong, How Kin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magmatic intrusions; Neotectonics; Pearl River Mouth basin; South China Sea; Unconformities

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMIC SURVEY; UNCONFORMITY;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0343415634     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00155-9     Document Type: Article

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