Miocene tidal-influenced sedimentation to continental Pliocene sedimentation in the forebulge-backbulge depozones of the Beni-Mamore foreland Basin (northern Bolivia)

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 351-368

  Roddaz, Martin ^a   Brusset, Stéphane ^a   Baby, Patrice ^a   Hérail, Gérard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Amazonian foreland Basin; Backbulge; Bolivia; Forebulge; Sequence stratigraphy; Tidal deposits

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FORELAND BASIN; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645938301     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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