The transpressive left-lateral sierra madre de chiapas and its buried front in the Tabasco plain (southern Mexico)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-155

  Witt, C ^a,b   Rangin, C ^a   Andreani, L ^c   Olaez, N ^d   Martinez, J ^e  

^a Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c Institut für Geologie Fernerkundung   (Germany)

^d PEMEX   (Mexico)

^e CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PLAIN; FAULT ACTIVITY; GULF OF MEXICO; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; ME-XICO; MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NORTH AMERICAN; PROGRADATION; STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATION; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

STRATIGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

CARIBBEAN PLATE; COCOS PLATE; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSPRESSION; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UNCONFORMITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHIAPAS; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TABASCO;

EID: 84857804744     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-024     Document Type: Article

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