Tectonic setting of the Taubaté Basin (Southeastern Brazil): Insights from regional seismic profiles and outcrop data

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 194-204

  Cogné, Nathan ^a   Cobbold, Peter R ^a   Riccomini, Claudio ^b   Gallagher, Kerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cenozoic tectonics; Plate wide stress; Southeastern Brazil; Strike slip reactivation; Taubat Basin

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; FAULTING; NORMAL FAULT; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; TAUBATE BASIN;

EID: 84871989859     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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