The balkan thrust wedge and foreland basin of eastern Bulgaria: Structural and stratigraphic development

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 68, 1997, Pages 91-114

  Sinclair, H D ^a   Juranov, S G ^b   Georgiev, G ^b   Byrne, P ^c   Mountney, N P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c Gas Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

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