A tectonic pulse in the Makran accretionary prism recorded in Iranian coastal sediments

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 903-910

  Hosseini Barzi, Mahboobeh ^a   Talbot, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accretion; Coastal sedimentation; Faults; Makran; Tectonic inversion; Underplating

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COASTAL SEDIMENT; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TECTONIC SETTING;

IRAN;

EID: 0345581271     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764903-005     Document Type: Article

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