Evolution of salt structures during extension and inversion of the Offshore Parentis Basin (Eastern Bay of Biscay)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 363, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 361-380

  Ferrer, O ^a   Jackson, M P A ^b   Roca, E ^a   Rubinat, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; BASEMENT ROCK; COMPLEX TERRAIN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MIOCENE; REVERSE FAULT; SALT DOME; SALT TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 84857378854     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP363.16     Document Type: Article

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