Extensional and Transtensional Continental ARC Basins: Case Studies from the Southwestern United States

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 382-404

  Busby, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc; Cascades; Cordillera; Extension; Jurassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886178141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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