Chapter 18 Structural and sedimentary development of a neogene transpressional plate boundary between the caribbean and South America plates in Trinidad and the Gulf of paria

Sedimentary Basins of the World

Volumn 4, Issue C, 1999, Pages 495-557

  Babb, Stephen ^a   Mann, Paul ^a  

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EID: 77957168496     PISSN: 18745997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1874-5997(99)80052-5     Document Type: Article

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