Fault growth and linkage: Implications for tectonosedimentary evolution in the Chezhen Basin of Bohai Bay, eastern China

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-26

  Su, Jinbao ^a   Zhu, Wenbin ^a   Wei, Jia ^b   Xu, Leiming ^b   Yang, Yanfeng ^c   Wang, Zhiqiang ^c   Zhang, Zhiyong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SINOPEC   (China)

^c Geological Institute of the Hekou Oil Production Plant   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

BASIN DEVELOPMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; JIYANG DEPRESSION; NORMAL FAULT ZONES; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL EVOLUTIONS;

DEPOSITION;

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT ZONE; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BOHAI BAY; CHINA;

EID: 79951735930     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/06301009207     Document Type: Article

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