Cenozoic evolution of the northwestern Salar de Atacama Basin, northern Chile

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1-19

  Pananont, P ^a   Mpodozis, C ^b   Blanco, N ^c   Jordan, T E ^a   Brown, L D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b SIPETROL SA   (Chile)

^c SERNAGEOMIN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Andes; Salt tectonics; Sedimentary basins

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; DIAPIR; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

ATACAMA; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ATACAMA;

EID: 16344377324     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003TC001595     Document Type: Article

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