Towards an Automated Strategy for Modelling Extensional Basins and Margins in Four Dimensions

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 321-331

  White, Nicky ^a   Haines, John ^a   Jones, Stephen ^a   Hanne, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80052526164     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2004.029.01.30     Document Type: Article

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