Attributes and evolution of an exhumed salt weld, La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 323-326

  Giles, Katherine A ^a   Lawton, Timothy F ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALT TECTONICS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; WELDS;

ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; DIAPIRISM; GROWTH FAULT; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATERAL MIGRATION; ME-XICO; REVERSE FAULTS; TWO PHASE;

LANTHANUM;

DIAPIRISM; EXHUMATION; SALT TECTONICS;

LA POPA BASIN; MEXICO;

EID: 84879880563     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0323:AAEOAE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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