Foreland Basin Systems Revisited: Variations in Response to Tectonic Settings

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 405-426

  Decelles, Peter G ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexure; Foreland basins; Geodynamics; Orogenic belts; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886142647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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