Geological Society of America Bulletin Major forearc subsidence and deep-marine Miocene sedimentation in the present Coastal Cordillera and Longitudinal Depression of south-central Chile (38 o30'S-41 o45'S)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1262-1277

  Encinas, Alfonso ^a   Finger, Kenneth L ^b   Buatois, Luis A ^c   Peterson, Dawn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-MARINE; FOREARC; JURASSIC; LATE MIOCENE; MAJOR EVENTS; MARINE SEDIMENTATION; MARINE STRATA; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; MIOCENE; NEO GENES; PALEOBATHYMETRY; PLIOCENE; STUDY AREAS; UNDERPLATING;

OIL WELLS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

SEDIMENTS;

ACCRETION; BATHYAL ZONE; FOREARC BASIN; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TRANSGRESSION; UNDERPLATING;

CHILE; COASTAL CORDILLERA;

ERO;

EID: 84865189237     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30567.1     Document Type: Article

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