Chronostratigraphy and tectonic deformation of the North Ecuadorian-South Colombian offshore Manglares forearc basin

Marine Geology

Volumn 255, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 30-44

  Marcaillou, Boris ^a   Collot, Jean Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Chronostratigraphy; Colombia; Convergent Margin; Ecuador; Forearc Basin; Multichannel seismic data; Tectonic deformation

Indexed keywords

BASIN SUBSIDENCE; CENOZOIC; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COLOMBIA; COMPRESSIVE DEFORMATIONS; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EARLY OLIGOCENE; ECUADOR; EUSTASY; FOREARC BASIN; HORIZONTAL MOTIONS; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE EOCENE; LATEST OLIGOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC DATA; PALEOCENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES; SEISMIC DATA ANALYSIS; SEISMIC FACIES; TECTONIC DEFORMATION; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS;

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; EARTH SCIENCES; FOUNDATIONS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRATIGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

BASIN FILL; CENOZOIC; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMPRESSION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; EUSTACY; FOREARC BASIN; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CRUST; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UPLIFT;

COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; GORGONA ISLAND; SOUTH AMERICA; VALLE DEL CAUCA;

EID: 52249098831     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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