Subsidence in the super-deep Pattani and Malay basins of Southeast Asia: A coupled model incorporating lower-crustal flow in response to post-rift sediment loading

Basin Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-84

  Morley, Christopher K ^a   Westaway, Rob ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL THINNING; RIFT ZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33644975540     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00285.x     Document Type: Article

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