Structure and regional tectonics of the achara-trialet fold belt and the adjacent rioni and kartli foreland basins, Republic of Georgia

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 68, 1997, Pages 331-346

  Banks, Chris J ^a,c   Robinson, Andrew G ^b   Williams, Math P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KX Oil and Gas Pic   (United Kingdom)

^c Robertson Research International Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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