An insight on salt tectonics in the Angola Basin, South Atlantic

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 100, Issue , 1996, Pages 153-174

  Spathopoulos, Fivos ^a  

^a Amerada Hess Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 5244317809     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.100.01.11     Document Type: Article

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