Pro- vs. retro-foreland basins

Basin Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-303

  Naylor, Mark ^a   Sinclair, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; FORELAND BASIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC PLATE;

EID: 51049113200     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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