Cratonic Basins

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 602-620

  Allen, Philip A ^a   Armitage, John J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental lithosphere; Strain rate; Stratigraphy; Stretching; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886105469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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