The influence of intraplate structural accommodation zones on delineating petroleum provinces of the Sub-Andean foreland basins

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-19

  Jacques, John M ^a  

^a Robertson Research International Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crustal lineaments; Megasequences; Petroleum provinces; Sub andean

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155181264     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079303-582     Document Type: Article

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