Salients, recesses, arcs, oroclines, and syntaxes - A review of ideas concerning the formation of map-view curves in fold-thrust belts

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 82, 2005, Pages 131-156

  Marshak, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLD; FORELAND BASIN; OROGENIC BELT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST;

EID: 34548565603     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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