Importance of predecessor basin history on sedimentary fill of a retroarc foreland basin: provenance analysis of the Cretaceous Magallanes basin, Chile (50-52°S)

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 640-658

  Romans, B W ^a   Fildani, A ^b   Graham, S A ^a   Hubbard, S M ^c   Covault, J A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXHUMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; IGNEOUS ROCK; JURASSIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAASTRICHTIAN; MUDSTONE; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SANTONIAN;

AUSTRAL BASIN; CHILE;

EID: 77953818522     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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