Sediment supply, tectonic subsidence, and basin-filling patterns across the southwestern south China sea during pliocene to recent time

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 149, Issue , 2004, Pages 235-254

  Murray, Mychal R ^a   Dorobek, Steven L ^b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 50949111157     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/149GM13     Document Type: Chapter

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