Post-Rift Deformation of the North East and South Atlantic Margins: Are "Passive Margins" Really Passive?

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 249-269

  Paton, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compressional deformation; Passive margin; Post rift subsidence; Uplift

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886186717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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