The North Makassar Straits: What lies beneath?

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-158

  Hall, Robert ^a   Cloke, Ian R ^a,b   Nur'aini, Siti ^a,c   Puspita, Sinchia Dewi ^a,d   Calvert, Stephen J ^a,e   Elders, Christopher F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Metropolitan Centre   (South Africa)

^c ConocoPhillips Indonesia ^*  (Indonesia)

^d Sentral Senayan I Office Tower   (Indonesia)

^e MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borneo; Continental crust; Eocene; Oceanic crust; Rifting; Sulawesi

Indexed keywords

BORNEO; CONTINENTAL CRUST; EOCENE; OCEANIC CRUST; RIFTING; SULAWESI;

BUILDINGS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; LINEAMENT; OBLIQUE FAULT; OCEANIC CRUST; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; BORNEO; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; MAKASSAR STRAIT; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SULAWESI; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 70049116263     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-829     Document Type: Article

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