Miocene-Pleistocene sediments within the San José del Cabo Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 318, Issue , 1997, Pages 141-166

  Martínez Gutiérrez, Genaro ^a   Sethi, Parvinder S ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR   (Mexico)

^b RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FAULTING; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

ALLUVIAL SEDIMENTS; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS; QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSITS;

SEDIMENTS;

AGE STRUCTURE; ALLUVIAL FAN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GRABEN; MIOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; BRAZIL; CABO BASIN; CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SAN JOSE [CALIFORNIA]; SERGIPE-ALAGOAS BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870830965     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2318-3.141     Document Type: Article

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