Segmentation and differential post-rift uplift at the Angola margin as recorded by the transform-rifted Benguela and oblique-to-orthogonal-rifted Kwanza basins

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1040-1068

  Guiraud, M ^a   Buta Neto, A ^b   Quesne, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b Universidade Agostinho Neto   (Angola)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENGUELA; CENOZOIC; DEEP SEA FAN; DRIVING FORCES; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; NEO GENES; PLEISTOCENE; PRECAMBRIAN; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL; SMALL CATCHMENT; SMALL SIZE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; SUBSURFACE DATA; SYN-RIFT; TRANSFORM MARGIN; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

CATCHMENTS; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; GRAVITY ANOMALY; PLEISTOCENE; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE FAN; UPLIFT;

ANGOLA; ANGOLAN MARGIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CUANZA BASIN;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 77951022117     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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